CIVICO MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO GIOVANNI RAMBOTTI

The "G. Rambotti" Civic Archaeological Museum was created to highlight the wealth of archaeological evidence in the Desenzano area, with a focus on the prehistory of Lake Garda and the Lavagnone pile-dwelling. Following the inscription of the transnational serial site 'Prehistoric pile-dwelling sites of the Alps' by UNESCO in 2011, the exhibition was enriched with new material from Lavagnone, which until then had been conserved in other locations, and from other lake lake pile dwellings (Padenghe, Moniga, Lugana Vecchia, Porto Galeazzi and Maraschina), thanks above all to the will of the then Superintendent Raffaella Poggiani Keller, who saw the Museum as a 'showcase' for Lake Garda's pile dwellings. The 'heart' of the exhibition is represented by the materials found at Lavagnone, in particular during the excavations conducted by Renato Perini in the 1970s, to whom we owe the exceptional discovery, in 1978, of a wooden plough dating back to the Bronze Age, and by the University of Milan since 1989. A section of the Museum is then dedicated to more recent eras, from the Roman age to the Renaissance and the period of the rule of the Serenissima Republic of Venice.