The museum has been restructured, and it presents the whole of the archaeological vestiges of Corsica. It owns an important stock of archaeological objects, with over 250,000 pieces, from the smallest arrowhead to the standing stone statue. The major part of the exhibited collections is to illustrate the Corsican prehistoric cultures from the Mesolithic age, about 9,000 years ago, time at which Man is known to have arrived on the island. The museum devotes itself to reconstitute the evolution of local human societies during the Neolithic period (6,000 to 2,500 BC), the Metal Age (as from 3,000 BC) and the Antiquity, displaying stone and metal objects, potteries, jewels, standing stone statues, models and digital reconstitutions of prehistoric monuments. These remnants attest to the innovations made on the island but also to the exchanges with other peoples from the Mediterranean basin as from the 6th millennium. The museum is open from Monday to Saturday 9 AM to 7 PM Phone: 04 95 77 01 09 / 04 95 23 27 72
This museum gathers collections of objects excavated mainly in the Alta Rocca region. The exhibited pieces often show, in a chronological order, the successive cultures of the micro-region from the origins (8th millennium BC) to the Middle Ages. The museum shelters the unique pre-Neolithic human vestige ("the Araquina lady"), dating from 6,570 BC and perfectly preserved, the skeleton of a now extinct animal species (the "rabbitrat") as well as the reconstitution of a medieval burial place which teaches about the funeral rituals of that time. There is also an ivory Christ, a beautifully carved work made around 1516 by a pupil of Donatello's Italian school. According to tradition, it was offered to the town of Levie by the Pope Sixtus V. Phone: 04 95 78 46 34 the rates and opening hours are in the website
