The museum is located in the old Borghese Granary, an imposing building from the late eighteenth century, renovated in 2009, that still preserves its simple architectural structure.
Named after the Belgian Archeologist Roger Lambrechts, who supervised the excavation of the nearby Civita Plane for 25 years, the museum offers a varied archeological collection. The tour itinerary is organized in two wide rooms located on the first floor of the building. In the first room are displayed numerous archeological finds from the excavations conducted at the Civita Plane, arranged in a chronological arc spanning from the late Archaic Period to the Middle Republican age (start of the V century – first quarter of the III century BC).

Ceramics, utensils and everyday objects, often perfectly preserved, paint a strong, otherwise unknown, picture of a community that lived in a dominant position overlooking the opening of the Sacco Valley. The second room offers a series of materials recovered on the territory (both by chance and during reconnaissance activities) and findings resurfaced during standard excavation campaigns conducted in a Roman villa (from the I century BC) built in the area, that has been abandoned since the III century BC. Both findings allow visitors to understand the complex settlement system of the surrounding countryside, crossed by the via Latina and characterized by the presence of rustic villas that were inhabited until the late antiquity period.

The museum is linked to the Civita Plane archeological area, located approximately one kilometer away from the town’s historic center, at an altitude of 631 meters. Surrounded by an extraordinary landscape, with views that span from the Lepini Mountains of the Roman Castles, to the Sacco Valley and the Prenestini Mountains, the site preserves the ruins of a dwelling protected by a polygonal masonry wall, used until the III century BC. On the central terrace, held up by an imposing polygonal masonry terraced wall, are the remains of a rustic Roman villa lived in between the I and II century BC, (and used for various purposes until the VII century AD) that is, to this day, still the subject of several excavations.

Campagna fotografica realizzata nell’ambito del progetto “Oltre Roma” e finanziata dalla Regione Lazio, Avviso Pubblico “La cultura fa sistema 2021”