Museo della Valle

Museo della Valle of Zogno is a Foundation established in 1976.

It was officially opened in March 1979, and in the following year, 1980, the Archaeological Superintendence of Lombardy granted permission for the storage of archaeological founds discovered in the territory of Zogno, thats creating the Archeological Section. In April 1982, the Museum received a special mention of the European museum of the year award from the team award in Stockholm as the best European Museum for the year 1981.

In 1989 Mariuccia Polli Gavazzeni, Vincenzo Polli, Paola, Giovanna and Augusta Pellegrini donated the building to the Museum.

On December 13, 1999, the Museo della Valle was incorporated as: the Polli Stoppani Foundation Onlus. In 2003 works began to enrich the Museum with the new Paleontology section while applying the Archaeological section, works that would end in 2006.

The Museum consists of 11 exhibition halls,

as well as two halls in an adjoining building attached to the main body, dedicated to Archaeology , Paleontology and an outdoor space in which under a four- sided portico are exhibited ancient means of transportation and machinery for working the fields.

The ethnographic themes on display are:

Hall I the iron
Hall II the kitchen
Hall III the bedroom
Hall IV the agriculture
Hall V the dairy, clocks, and tumblers
Hall VI the clog factory
Hall VII the tavern
Hall VIII the household utensils
Hall IX Pasti’ and the Knife Grinder
Hall X looms and lamps
Hall XI folk religiosity

Info

Museo della Valle,
Fondazione Polli Stoppani ONLUS

Via Mazzini 3 – Zogno (Bergamo)
Tel.: 0345/91473 Fax: 0345/50866