CIVICO MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO GIOVANNI RAMBOTTI

The Archaeological Museum G. Rambotti was created with the aim of enhancing the extraordinary wealth of archaeological evidence in the Desenzano area, with particular attention to the prehistory of Lake Garda and the pile-dwelling site of the Lavagnone.

After the transnational serial site was registered in 2011 Prehistoric pile-dwelling sites in the Alps on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the exhibition was expanded to include new finds from Lavagnone - previously stored elsewhere - and from other Lake Garda pile dwellings (Padenghe, Moniga, Lugana Vecchia, Porto Galeazzi and Maraschina). An enrichment made possible above all thanks to the vision of the then Superintendent Raffaella Poggiani Keller, which recognised the Museum as a true “showcase” for the Lake Garda pile dwellings.

The heart of the exhibition is made up of materials found at Lavagnone, in particular those that emerged during excavations conducted in the 1970s by Renato Perini, to whom we owe the discovery, in 1978, of the famous wooden plough from the Bronze Age, as well as research undertaken by the University of Milan since 1989.

Finally, a section of the museum is dedicated to more recent eras, from the Roman age to the Renaissance, and the period of the domination of the Most Serene Republic of Venice, offering a wide-ranging look at the territory's long history.