The museum has a collection of epigraphs that covers a period of more than two millennia, from the 4C BC to the 19C AD.
It includes a collection of Etruscan sarcophagi (Etruscan Crypt), a vast group of Roman inscriptions (Roman Basilica), a series of Palaeo-Christian tombstones (Visigothic Church), a space dedicated to the re-use of ancient monuments (Cronos Devorator), a large set of mediaeval and post-mediaeval tombstones.
It also includes ruins from the Roman villa of São Miguel de Odrinhas.