The Municipal Museum of San Severo was instituted in 1989 in the halls of the eighteenth-century Palazzo San Francesco, which was for centuries the home of a Franciscan community.
It now houses archaeological relics found in the area of the Apulian Table and dating back to between prehistoric times and the Middle Ages.
The history of the territory of the Apulian Table comes back to life in the modernized spaces of the MAT through educational itineraries that reconstruct its settled landscapes and the evolution of the Daunia civilization.
The most interesting part of the museum collection consists of Hellenistic relics: these are mostly  funerary accoutrements  from the tombs of the necropolis of  Pendicone and the Masseria Casone (IV-III centuries B.C.). The Roman period is represented by the oil lamps, or lucerne from the Imperial era, the glass vessels and remains of red glazed ceramic vases.
The Museum halls also offer visitors the picture gallery "Pinacoteca Luigi Schingo", with thirty-seven works from the modern age, including sculptures, sketches, and drawings by this San Severo-born artist.