MUSEO BERGOMI

The Bergomi Museum, located at the Garda Exhibition Centre and inaugurated in 2004, exhibits and preserves ethnographic artefacts from the Brescia area belonging to a collection realised in over thirty years of assiduous research by the painter Giacomo Bergomi (1923-2003) and donated to the Municipality of Montichiari in 1999. The collection comprises about six thousand objects from the Alpine and pre-alpine valleys and the plains and represents the most important nucleus of such assets in the province of Brescia, documenting the historical reality of the local agricultural world over the last two centuries. The permanent exhibition houses about 800 exhibits and is divided into two sections: the first section is intended to offer visitors a broad reconstruction of the traditional cycles of the year and human life, seen in their mutual intertwining as well as in their connections with agricultural and forestry-pastoral activities; the second section presents metal and woodworking techniques with a look at the ancient crafts of the carpenter, the carver, the basket maker, the shoemaker, the blacksmith and the coppersmith.

MontichiariMusei is an urban museum system recognised by the Region of Lombardy and established in 2009 by the Municipality of Montichiari to enhance the tangible and intangible heritage of its civic museums. The Bonoris Castle, the Lechi Museum, the Pasinetti Art Gallery, the Bergomi Museum, the Historical Museum of the Risorgimento, and the Palace of Archaeology and History of the Territory are part of the museum system.