The Angera Civic Museum of Archaeology opened to the public in 1976, after 4 years of intense work by the Mario Bertolone Historic and Archaeological Association. It discovered 42 tombs during first excavations near the Roman necropolis (already known at the end of the 1800’s) in 1971, and another 23 later.
The Seat of the Angera Civic Museum
The Civic Museum is located at Via Marconi 2 in the Palazzo del Pretorio, a building from the late 15th century with a small courtyard and portico. After a series of renovations, the museum now belongs to the SiMArch Archaeological Museum System of the Province of Varese along with the Varese Civic Museum of Archaeology, Isolino Virginia (Islet of Virginia) on Lake Varese, the Museum in Sesto Calende and the Museum in Arsago Seprio.
The Angera Museum: halls and sections
The exhibit is currently organised in two sections in two halls upstairs: the prehistoric section concerns the finds discovered in the antro mitriaco, a grotto located on the slopes of the hill where the fortress is today. It was inhabited in prehistoric times and later renovated in the Roman period and used as a place of worship of the god Mithra. These finds date back to the Paleolithic period, and are the oldest proof of human settlement in the area of Varese.
The second hall is dedicated to the finds from the Roman necropolis located close to the current cemetery, where excavations started in 1877. These finds from 178 tombs date back between the 1st- to 3rd-centuries AD: glass plates and small pottery with thin walls (uncommon among grave goods), coins, nails, knives, broken earthenware, glass oil-lamps, remains of human and animal bones and often burnt bread. The ornaments are rare.
This evidence gives visitors an idea of the importance of the settlement of Statio (the village’s old name), which was already a meeting place between the alps and plain in the Roman period.
Photo gallery Angera Civic Museum of Archaeology
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