The museum of Santa Marinella was founded in 1993 and has recently been enlarged and renovated. It is dedicated to the theme of the sea and ancient navigation. It illustrates, through original artefacts and reconstructed models, some particular aspects of the ancient peoples’ life “on the sea and for the sea”.
The museum is within the wonderful setting of the Castle of Santa Severa, built in the middle ages upon the ancient settlement of Pyrgi, a famous port open to Mediterranean traffic, controlled by the Etruscan city of Caere, known today as Cerveteri.

From the Visitors Centre of the museum, you access the itinerary of "Pyrgi and the castle of Santa Severa": a journey to discover the history of one of the oldest ports of the Tyrrhenian Sea, an important place of worship, Etruscan city, Roman fortress, castle and medieval town.
A journey that takes you over four thousand years back in time to a highly-suggestive coastal environment.

The museum is equipped with didactic laboratories, a video library and a library with around 400 books containing texts on the history, topography and archaeology of the cerite - tolfetano – braccianese territory, underwater and naval archaeology.
The museum offers guided tours, experimental archaeology laboratories, school camps and visits to submerged Pyrgi ruins, through deep-sea diving tours or with a glass-bottomed boat.

The museum includes the office of the Inter-municipal Association for the Cerite System Project, the Centre of Maritime Studies and Archaeological Group of the Cerite Territory, the didactic and cultural services promoted by the Archeodromo Society.

Galleria fotografica