Museums in Matera
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For its size, Matera has strikingly many museums, and they differ from one another more than elsewhere: a national archaeological museum, a regional museum in a palace, contemporary sculpture in cave rooms, furnished cave dwellings, an oil mill underground. This page sorts them by what you want to take away.
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The city’s archaeological museum: finds from prehistory and from the Greek period – and the explanation for what lies in the ground on the plateau opposite.
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A concert hall in a former quarry – underground, with surprising acoustics. The best reason not to spend your evening in Matera only over dinner.
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Oil, stone and labour: a small museum in an underground oil mill – where the installation itself is the main exhibit.
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A furnished cave dwelling makes concrete what stays abstract in descriptions: how a family with children, a mule and chickens lived in a single room – right up to the 1950s.
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Not a museum with display cases but a piece of storytelling: in an old house in the Sassi the history of the city is projected onto the walls. The most sensible first item on any itinerary.
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Modern sculpture in cave rooms: the MUSMA brings art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries together with the city’s oldest building material. Worth seeing even if you are sceptical about the genre.
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The large palace at the edge of the upper town houses the regional museum of medieval and modern art of Basilicata – including Carlo Levi’s mural Lucania ’61.
