Museo Archeologico Platina

The Piadena Museum is the reference archaeological museum for the eastern part of the province of Cremona and hosts archaeological materials found in an area - that of Piadenese, Casalasco and surrounding areas - that has always played a fundamental role in the history of archaeological research.
The Museum of Piadena offers visitors a rich picture of the human peopling of the territory from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Early Middle Ages, but it is the finds and the results of investigations on sites from the Ancient Neolithic (6th millennium B.C.) that have made Piadena famous in specific archaeological literature and in the history of research.
With the identification of the Vho Culture of Piadena, in fact, a piece has been added to the picture of the ancient peopling of the Po Valley and important information on the way of life of the first agricultural communities that came to settle in the centre of the Po Valley. Of particular interest are also the investigations on two Bronze Age settlements: the Bronze Age settlement of Lagazzi (included in 2011 in the serial site "Prehistoric pile-dwelling sites in the Alps" on the UNESCO World Heritage List) and the settlement of Castellaro del Vho, dating back several centuries. The Iron Age is represented by the Celtic findings of some burials in Campo Costiere and the Necropolis of the Social Dairy of Piadena. There is also a very rich section dedicated to Bedriacum, a small town from the Roman era now located in the territory of nearby Calvatone and originally strategically positioned along the Via Postumia.