Attached to the Archaeological Park of Sibari and inaugurated in 1996, the new National Archaeological Museum of the Sibaritide is the main cultural and historical center of the Ionian coast of the province of Cosenza.
The Museum of the Sibaritide exhibits the most important finds from the surrounding area, including pre-colonial findings from the sites of Francavilla Marittima and Castiglione di Paludi. Distributed in a total of five museographic areas are the finds from the excavation area of the adjacent Archaeological Park, which concern the overlapping cities of Sybaris and Thourioi, dating back to the archaic and Hellenistic period, and the Roman Copia. The most illustrious find of the museum is certainly the Cozzante Bull, a bronze statuette found in a building of the ancient Roman colony Copia and dating back to the fifth century BC. The find is considered by scholars to be the most important discovery of the Magna Graecia Bronze Age after the Bronzes of Riace.
