Museo del Centro Caprense Ignazio Cerio

The Ignazio Cerio Cadrense Center Museum is located in the heart of the island of Capri overlooking the Piazzetta, inside a 14th century Palace (formerly Palazzo Arcucci). A visit to the Museum allows visitors to embark on a journey into the past of the island of Capri. The more than twenty thousand preserved exhibits were collected by a doctor, Dr. Ignazio Cerio (Giulianova, 1840 - Capri, 1921), in the last decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, during his surveys or the result of donations and exchanges with scholars from all over the world.
In the ancient cases, the “Fauna of Quisisana” are preserved, or the remains of bears, panthers and hyenas, dating back to about 250,000 years ago; the oldest traces of human presence, witnessed by the oldest artifacts found at the sites of Quisisana and the Grotta delle Fern; the Emperor Tiberius and his stay in Capri is told through the Classical Archaeology Collection; in the last room of the Museum, waiting for the visitor, will be the blue lizard of the Faraglioni, together with other specimens of the Island.