Museo della Civiltà Normanna

The Museum of Norman Civilisation, located inside the Norman castle of Ariano Irpino (AV), is the result of twenty years of activity carried out by CESN (European Centre of Norman Studies), an entity included in the list of 'cultural institutions of national importance ». The museum's holdings consists of an 'important collection of Norman-Swabian coins (among the most significant and the Duchy Augustale) and a fund of other medieval coins. Parchments, sixteenth, engravings, a silver dish Gospels and stone materials rimpinguano the coins room along with playback of great value, the mantle of King Roger II. In the armory, instead, are on display 220 authentic specimens of weapons in the auction of VI-XVIII centuries A.D. The weapons are organized according to the typological families belong: halberds, pikes, corsesche, falcioni, spears, ronconi, brandistocchi, dark, Buttafuoco, alighieri, quadrelloni, forks, forks, skewers. The hall also reports from various funds, rare examples of pre-Roman edged weapons, Roman and Lombard (among them an extremely rare Roman pilum, exemplary perhaps unique in the Italian museum landscape). In addition to the large model of the Battle of Hastings, recently it restored, which reconstructs what happened in 1066 when it began: the Norman epic in Europe, stand sixteenth century suit of armor, an ax by decapitation of the twelfth century. C. and a dummy which imitates, in natural size, a Norman warrior on foot, fully armed.