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The Museum is located in the nineteenth-century Palazzo Sinesi.The current exhibition, renewed in 2018, illustrates with didactic and informative panels in Italian and English, a cross-section of the Canosa society between the Archaic and Hellenistic periods, one of the most important moments in the millennial history of the city. The archaeological exhibition is dedicated to grave goods from archaic tombs and rich hellenistic hypogea, that show us customes and attitudes of Canosa society and also the high quality of the local handicraft.

The baptistery, one of the mouments attributed to S.Sabino (516 - 566), was integral part of a complex of Christian buildings as the Basilica of the Salvatore and that of S. Maria. The building, with 12 sides, is preserved thanks to the presence of a crusher that, in the 800, has utilized the ancient structures, without twisting its plant and arresting the inexorable destruction of it. The inside is divided in symmetrical environments, displaced around a central room that preserves the rests of the baptismal source of eptagonal form.

The most important funeral complex of Canusium and of the whole region between IV and I century BC composed by three separate hypogeums. Dug underground enttirely in the tufo, the greatest is characterized by an ample dròmos (corridor) of access and from nine among rooms and hallways that issue from it forming a Latin cross plant, and decorated with ionic halfcolumns. Architecturally similar to the coeval funeral structures of Greek and Macedonian area, are these the "abodes" of the dead persons belonging to the rich native aristocratic class, the so-called ones "princes" of Daunia.