Top 10 Museums in Province of Benevento, Campania

Bottega "Le Fornaci" was founded in 2004 by Vincenzo Franco and it is located in the splendid "City of Foundation", "City of Ancient Ceramic Tradition" (AiCC) called Cerreto Sannita, a pearl of the Italian Baroque, in the south of Italy. The workroom and the showroom are situated in the "Palazzo S. Antonio", in the same building of the Civic Museum of the "Cerretese" Ceramics. "Le Fornaci" is one of the most well-known "botteghe" of the rich Italian ceramic production. We create artistic, traditional, experimental and author's ceramics, objects of design and furnishings of high quality. The traditional production is the result of a continuous study of materials, techniques and of the wide documents of the eighteenth-century production. Same quality and refinement can be recognized in the modern production, the evolution of the traditional one. We create it by trying out new formal languages, new techniques, using new materials and producing unusual and unexpected contaminations. The name: the furnace is one of the most important instruments of the ceramic processing, where the product lives its last moments of the creation; here, in fact, it is fired at high temperatures, before becoming a new and unique piece of the production. But the furnace is not only a mere instrument, it is the "melting pot of ideas", where inventiveness and creativity meet, fuse and mix together, giving life to new concepts, styles, passions which liven up the artist and come alive in his works.

The original nucleus of the museum goes back to the 1873. The museum collection took shape over the time as a result of donations, acquisitions and local discoveries. It collects historical evidences since samnitic and roman period, passing through the longobards age, and culminating into interesting national artists works of the XX century. The over 500 finds cover a long period, from the prehistory to our days, and through them we arw able to follow the creation of a local awareness of the heritage, all over the centuries. Belongs to the museum also the romanesque cloister of the XII century, that together with the church is since 2011 a serial site of Unesco. The itinerary also winds along the Palazzo Casiello, seat since 2014 of the section known as "Sculptures and Sarcophagi" of the roman period, that also hosts a bookshop/infopoint