Museo Bergomi

About

The museum displays a selection of ethnographic findings, which come from the alpine valleys and plains of Brescia. They belong to a collection made in over thirty years of assiduous research by the Brescian painter Giacomo Bergomi (1923-2003). They were donated in 1999 to the Town of Montichiari. The collection, which is the most important in the province of Brescia, comprises six thousand items. It documents the historical reality of the local farming in the last two centuries. The first section aims to give visitors a reconstruction of the traditional cycles of the year (seasonal festivals and celebrations) and human life (from birth to burial), caught in their mutual interweaving as well as their links with the farming and forestry-pastoral activities. The second section presents the techniques of metal working and wood with a look at the ancient crafts of the carpenter, the engraver, the basket maker, the blacksmith and coppersmith.

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 30 minutes