The 10 Best History Museums in Abruzzo, Italy

In the heart of San Salvo Town, "La Giostra della Memoria" is listed among the least explored treasures of Abruzzo. A museum who owns historical collectibles inherent to the local culture, and shows the daily life of peasants, artisans, wealthy families and religious of a time.

The museum follows the story of mankind in Abruzzo, from man's first appearance as a Palaeolithic hunter. It highlights the contribution made by 9 italic tribes from Abruzzo and Molise to the making of Rome, thus giving the name "Italy" to the entire peninsula. A brief summary illustrates how much of their past has been handed down to us in terms of customs, beliefs, places of worship, products, objects, manners. The central theme of the museum, organized into 16 huge display rooms, is the concept of continuity, everlasting culture, illustrated via a fascinating, educational exhibition, equipped with multimedia facilities and digitally assisted audio guide available in many languages. The museum, is one of the most original and innovative within the field of Antropology in Italy. The Museum of the Abruzzi People is located in the historical centre of Pescara, inside the old Bourbon barracks building. The floor where the permanent collection is housed was built as barracks in the 18th Century, on the basement that belonged to Pescara's 15th Century fortress.

Palazzo Sipari was built at the end of 18th Century and finished in 1830 Century by the will of Pietrantonio Sipari. The famous philisopher , Benedetto Croce, was born in this building on the 25 february 1866. Palazzo Sipari è la casa natale di Benedetto Croce, filosofo di fama internazionale. Il palazzo è stato la dimora di Erminio Sipari, cugino di Benedetto Croce, deputato, fondatore del Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo e primo presidente.

The Ethnographic Museum of Bomba (Chieti - Italy) was created because of the need to think over our local story and to bring closer the youth to the past, to the traditions, to our cultural roots by the mean of working tools and everyday's life items. Our purpose is allowing the youth to re-discover their own roots and cultural identity, to make them meet with the values of their world and their culture by a diachronical comparison with the past and a synchronical comparison with the present. The Ethnographic Museum of Bomba, created in 1990, collects the tools that man used for millennia to produce everything was necessary to fulfil his own needs and to improve the social conditions of his family. In this museum the artefacts have been allocated in six rooms, which reproduce the different environments of the farm houses.