The Museum is housed inside the fifteenth-century Orsini castle, owned by the Ruspoli family since 1674, in the wing which runs along the north-western side of the acropolis of the Etruscan city, onto which the sixteenth-century arcade of the building and the homonymous church face.

Set on two floors, it exhibits, chronologically, objects which have almost exclusively come from the Etruscan necropolises of Cerveteri: from Banditaccia, north of the urban area, from the Mount Abatone to the south, and from the Sorbo hill to the southwest.

There are some tombstones, statues and architectural fragments from the Etruscan and Roman Age placed in the entry courtyard. On the ground floor the exhibition starts with the grave goods from the Sorbo necropolis, (Iron Age IX-VIII B.C.), followed by the burial chambers from the Casaletti di Ceri burial mounds, with local ceramics (impasto and bucchero) and of Greek origin, and burial chambers of the VII and VI century B.C. from the necropolises of Mount Abatone and the Banditaccia that are full of local and imported ceramics and numerous and varied objects that make up the grave goods.

The exhibition continues on its chronological tour on the next floor, from the end of the VI century B.C. to Romanisation.
Attic vases portraying black and red figures, Tyrrhenian vases, an example of a Hydra from Cerveteri, the lid of a sarcophagus-urn in terracotta depicting a youth in heroic nudity, decorative works in terracotta and locally produced painted clay slabs, sculptures in limestone, some large sarcophaguses with roofs or with lids that depict the deceased in a recumbent position.

The exhibition ends with a series of grave goods dating back to between the IV and II century A.D. with local red-figure pottery, with black-painted ware, acroma, examples of the period immediately before and after Romanisation.

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