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Virtual tour
Ground floor
Hall I
It exhibits evidence of the oldest stage in Adrano. There are placed pottery and stone tools and bone related to the villages of neolithic age dating between 6500 and 3500 BC. This is mainly stone tools of basalt, quartzite, flint and obsidian of Lipari. The pottery is of the type imprinted (5500 - 4500 BC); to painted surfaces ( "three-colour");the "style of Serra High", (elegant decorative spiral motifs); the style of Diana "(4500 - 3500 BC). The first age of metals (3500 - 2200 BC) is witnessed by a large documentation from the villages of the age of copper (Poggio dell'Aquila) and the ancient bronze (Predio Garofalo, contrada Fogliuta), dating from 2200 to 1400 BC. You can also observe hammer-hatchet, grinders and stone pestles to lavic for the grinding of cereals, fuseruole, spoons and handle to support the containers during the cooking , fictile horns, big pithoi for storage of food.
Hall II
There are exposed splendid corredi of vases from scroll lava caves placed between Adrano and Biancavilla (Caves Pellegriti, Maccarrone, Pietralunga, unloading Sapienza), in a period between the copper age(2400 - 2200 BC ) and the bronze age (facies of Castelluccio, 2200 - 1400 BC). Large bacini su piede, glasses, cups, orci, decorated with geometrical designs blacks on a red background; rare metal objects, a bronze axe with margins raised found inside the cave Maccarrone. It is the most important set of prehistoric vases ever found in the area and currently represent one of the most interesting collections of the Museum. This is followed by the archaeological documentation relating to the culture of the final bronze age (400 - 900 BC) and the first Iron Age. Visitor numbers few,, but that includes one of the most interesting and noted findings of the the museum: the cinerary urn with copertura a scodellone from the territory of Paternò and dating to the tenth century BC.
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