Museo Bergomi

The Bergomi Museum, located at the Garda Exhibition Centre and inaugurated in 2004, It preserves and exhibits a vast ethnographic heritage linked to the Brescia area. The collection is the result of over thirty years of research by the painter Giacomo Bergomi (1923-2003) and donated by him to the Municipality of Montichiari in 1999.

The collection comprises about 6,000 objects from the Alpine, pre-alpine and lowland valleys: this is the most important nucleus of museumised demological assets in the province of Brescia, documenting the historical reality of the local agricultural world of the last two centuries.

The permanent exhibition houses about 800 finds, divided into two sections:

• The first section offers a reconstruction of the traditional cycles of the year and human life, analysing their intertwining with agricultural and forestry activities.
• The second section explores metal and woodworking techniques, with a focus on the ancient crafts such as the carpenter, the carver, the basket maker, the shoemaker, the blacksmith and the coppersmith.

Montichiari Museums is the urban museum system established in 2009 by the Municipality of Montichiari and recognised by Lombardy Region. Its aim is to enhance the tangible and intangible heritage of the city's civic museums.

They are part of the system:

• Bonoris Castle
• Lechi Museum
• Pasinetti Art Gallery
• Bergomi Museum
• Historical Museum of the Risorgimento
• Palace of Archaeology and History