The Sesto Calende Civic Museum of Archaeology has some of the most important collections of finds referring to the so-called Culture of Golasecca. The museum is located in Town Hall, a historic 19th-century building close to the Ticino River.
History of the Sesto Calende Museum of Archaeology
The Sesto Calende Museum of Archaeology was created on an initiative by historic society Cesare da Sesto, a group of history and archaeology enthusiasts active soon after the war and guided by Prof. Mario Bertolone, an historian and archaeologist from Varese and director in Varese at the time of the Villa Mirabello Civic Museum of Archaeology. The museum was authorised by the Archaeological Superintendency in 1954. It initially only had an Archaeological Section, however in the following decades the museum was enhanced with a Municipal Art Gallery and then a Naturalistic Section.
Today, the museum in Sesto Calende is part of SiMArch, the Archaeological Museum System of the Province of Varese.
Sesto Museum Collection
The museum collection includes objects and archaeological finds, especially grave goods from ancient tombs, all arranged in chronological order. These findings especially occurred in the 1960’s, the years of the most significant excavations in the area between Sesto Calende, Golasecca, and Castelletto sopra Ticino.
The collection starts with very simple, linear vases, cups, and urns and continues with a production of more sophisticated, rich grave goods representing the evolution of the Culture of Golasecca in its various phases from the 9th- to the 5th-centuries BC. In addition to evidence of domestic activities, there are products for hygiene, clothing, and the most attractive piece for visitors, the Tomb of the Tripod, which is a female sepulchre discovered in 1977 in the necropolis in Mulini Bellaria, whose grave goods were still in good condition. They include a bronze bath supported by an iron structure with 3 rods ending in the shape of a human leg.
The museum also has finds preceding the Culture of Golasecca and belonging to the Bronze Age, and also later material from the early centuries BC (tomb from the Gallic period) to the Middle Ages (decorated slabs from the Abbey of San Donato).
The Naturalistic Section and its rich collection of fossils is also worth seeing.
Photo gallery Sesto Calende Civic Museum of Archaeology
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