The votive offerings, including figurines and potsherds, preserved in the museum provide decisive evidence, through the iconography of the goddess, for tracking the origins of the cult of Hera of Poseidonia within the Achaean tradition of Southern Italy, which in turn had its roots in the cult of Hera practiced in more ancient times by the Achaean populations of the Eastern Plain of Argolis.
[6] The museum also houses painted vases, such as a locally produced lekythos depicting a scene from the Adonia festival, which commemorated the death of Adonis.
[10] The restoration/maintenance of many slabs of the Lucanian funerary art has been a unique opportunity to carry out a multi-disciplinary and multi-analytical study of these pre-Roman wall paintings.
[11] The storage of the Archaeological Park of Paestum hosts several thousands of illegally excavated artefacts, mostly grave goods from the rich necropolises outside the ancient walls.
[18] The direction of the Museum promoted research activities on scientific methodologies for the study of archaeological finds in collaboration with the Associazione Italiana di Archeometria.