Museo archeologico nazionale dell’Agro Falisco e Forte Sangallo

The Museo archeologico nazionale dell’Agro Falisco is housed within the Forte Sangallo in Civita Castellana, a prestigious fifteenth-century papal military structure that preserves a large collection of archaeological evidence from the surrounding territory.

The deposits of the fortress also contain the Berman Collection, remarkable for the breadth and variety of its more than 3,000 objects, ranging from Etruscan-Italic, Greek, and South Italian artifacts to Egyptian and Near Eastern pieces; from archaeological and ethnological materials from the Americas, Africa, and Oceania to Christian sacred art and liturgical furnishings, and even natural history specimens such as fossils, shells, and minerals.

Among the non-European objects in the collection, the American artifacts are the most numerous—more than one hundred—and represent a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. These artifacts come mainly from Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and northern Peru, with a smaller number of objects belonging to the Mississippian culture (United States) and to Indigenous peoples of the western coast of British Columbia (Canada).