Archaeological Museum
MUSEO CIVICO di MANERBIO E DEL TERRITORIO
includedIt is located in the 17th-century wing of Palazzo Luzzago, a building that also houses the Town Hall, the Civic Library and the Piccolo Teatro 'Memo Bortolozzi'.
The exhibition venue has an area of approximately 500 square metres; adjacent rooms house the teaching laboratory, the staff office with a specialised library, the headquarters of the Archaeological Group and the museum storage room equipped for the cataloguing and study of exhibits.
Since 2004, a didactic service has been in operation for school children in the city and the region, including guided tours traditional, animated visits led by characters dressed in the fashion of the time, pthematic courses e educational workshops.
The chronologically articulated exhibition itinerary aims to retrace the stages of peopling in the territory of the lower Brescia plain from the Neolithic (6th millennium B.C.) to the post-medieval age.
Worked flint artefacts, fragments of square-mouthed vessels, pottery and bronze daggers from the contexts of the Vallone di Offlaga, Milzanello and the River Oglio bear witness to the earliest periods.
Significant finds, such as silver drachmas, testify instead to the importance of the Manerbio area within the territorial area chosen by the Cenomani Gauls for their settlement from the 4th century B.C.; from the town come important finds such as the famous moths of the Cascina Remondina and the treasure of over 3,000 coins of Gavrine Nuove, now in the Museum of Santa Giulia in Brescia.
The Roman period is documented by numerous grave goods; among the most interesting contexts is that of Cascina Trebeschi with forty-four indirect incineration tombs datable between the first half of the 1st century and the beginning of the 3rd century. The presence of abundant grave goods with valuable objects manifests an economic situation of wealth, and are certainly to be attributed to the local elite of the early imperial age, by then completely Romanised.
The post-medieval phase that closes the itinerary is exemplified by the rich collection of glazed and glazed ceramics recovered from the Roggia Marianna in Manerbio, precious clues to the presence of mug-makers who were particularly active in the town; among them, the name of the ceramist Santo Pellegrino, known through the seals impressed on the pieces produced by his workshop.
The museum also houses the only known coin in Italy of Aripertus I, Lombard king from 653 to 661.
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