Museo Arcos

The Arcos museum houses both the Egyptian Section, with its finds coming from the temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, “Lady of Benevento”, and the section of contemporary art.

ARCOS- Egyptian section

The itinerary is arranged in several rooms and traces an ideal trip to the temple, starting from an “initiation” to the cult of the goddess, continuing in the area in front of the temple and finally ending in the sacred area where is the actual cell of the goddess. The Temple of Isis was built by the Emperor Domitian between 88 and 89 A.D. with materials coming directly from Egypt, peculiarity that made Benevento the place in the West keeping the highest concentration of original Egyptian artifacts, mostly statues. In Benevento, in fact, there was one of the most important temples of Isis of the Roman Empire.

ARCOS – The Museum of Contemporary Art

ARCOS – The Museum of Contemporary Art in Benevento, opened to the public on 25 June 2005, was founded with the aim of promoting artistic culture in Samnium. Until 2010 it was directed by Danilo Eccher, one of the most famous Italian art critics. From 2013 onwards the artistic direction has been entrusted, free of charge, to Ferdinando Creta, Official of the Italian Ministry of Culture.