The Civic Archaeological Museum named after the person who founded it in 1877, namely Don Cesare Cellini, canon of the Cathedral and Knight of the Crown of Italy, is one of the richest, most important and visited museums in the Marche Region. The exhibits housed are about 4. 000 including coins: those on display, obviously the most significant and the best preserved, are about 500, arranged in five rooms and in a corridor, in 32 cabinets, on stands, on grids: they give the visitor the possibility to reconstruct the evolution of frequentation in the territory of Ripatransone (from which about 90 % of the material comes), from prehistory to Roman civilization; lithic materials: Paleolithic, Neolithic-Eneolithic; Bronze Age materials; Iron Age materials constitute the most substantial core, being finds from the Picene civilization (9th-3rd centuries BC. B.C.), most of which can be dated to the 6th century B.C.; this section was set up with both typological and topographical criteria. Finds from the Picenian civilization include: necklaces, ringed wings (typical Picenian objects), helmets, a woman's tomb, poppatoi, buccheroids (dark-colored clay material of Etruscan imitation).
The Roman civilization section is arranged in the last room and in the great corridor: except for a few coins, the finds are dated 1st cent. B.C.- 1st cent. A.D.; of note: marble bust of Venus, oil lamps, cinerary urns, fragment of Pompeian fresco, monumental cinerary urn (1st cent. A.D.) of Aulo Volumnio Platano freedman (rare piece in Italy and Europe); interesting lapidary for assortment of finds, including calendar fragments and tombstone with epigraph of Buxurio truentino, named Tracalo, architect.
The room on the mezzanine floor has housed the medieval section since 1998; among the pieces are an elegant baptismal font with bas-reliefs, datable to the 21st century; a stone triptych (mutilated, same period); four elegant Lombard fibulae (6th century); iron and terracotta oil lamps. The adjacent room has housed the modern section since April 21, 2001; among the curiosities, one of the bricks used to close the Holy Door of St. Peter's Vatican Basilica at the conclusion of the Jubilee of the year 1775.