The Regional Archaeological Museum "Pietro Griffo" of Agrigento in Contrada San Nicola is certainly one of the most important and most visited archaeological museums in Sicily. The building was designed by Franco Minissi and built in the ’60s on the hillock of San Nicola where there was the upper agora of the ancient city and, in more recent times, the villa of Ciantro Panitteri.
Wonderful the fusion between ancient factories (Cloister of San Nicola) and modern structures. The archaeological museum exhibits 5688 finds which, ordered according to a chronological and topographical criterion, illustrate the history of the Agrigento territory from prehistoric times to the end of the Greek-Roman age. The materials come from the funds of the Civic Museum, related to archaeological excavations conducted in the first decades of the last century, from private collections or have been sold by the archaeological museums of Palermo and Syracuse.
The most substantial part of the collections, however, is represented by the finds found by the Superintendence of Agrigento in the excavation campaigns conducted from the 1940s to the present day. The exhibition is divided into 18 rooms and two distinct but complementary sections.
