Reconstructed and rearranged in 1948,
on the ruins of the old museum destroyed by the bombardments of 1943,
it presents the historical development of Pompeii.
There is a pre-Samnite
section, that picks up the most ancient material of Oscan civilization
of the Sarno Valley. Other
sections are devoted to the Pompeian iconografy and to the Roman-Pompeii,
with finds that illustrate the economic and merchant city-life, tools
for work, materials from some workshops and surgical instruments.