It’s the essence of archaeology and historical anthropology, and of Paestum in particular. By discovering the architecture, art, rites, culture of ancient Greece - a world so far removed from our way of living and thinking - we can realize the variety of human life in history.

When, in the '700, the first travelers visited the site of Paestum, they did not know what to think of the Doric temples, their severe and archaic style. But precisely the otherness of these buildings, and the community that built them, are the basis of the charm that the siteGreek has exercised since then.

The amazement experienced by eighteenth-century travelers before the testimonies of the classical world was destined to repeat itself until the present: the Scolptio frieze of the first temple of Hera on the Sele river, the Tomb of the Diver, the bronze vases from the Heroon... works now on display in the museum that question and irritate the observer, talking about a world gone, "totally alien" to our gaze, as Johann Wolfgang Goethe wrote. A world, however, which also reserves a message for the future: the variety of forms of life, art, politics, thought, love that we find in history, shows: another world is possible