This museum charts the history of the abbey and assembles a collection of artworks that survived the 1944 bombings.

This Abbey founded in 529, had its zenith under Abbott Desiderius in the 11C and the art of the Montecassino monks (miniatures, frescoes, mosaics) influenced Clunisian art enormously. The abbey, fronted by four interlinked cloisters, was rebuilt afte..

This museum exhibits objects unearthed in excavations in the neighbouring archaeological site, where they found the relics of an amphitheatre, a theatre and the tomb of Umidia Quadratilla.