Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Ethnography and anthropology museums; Archaeology museums

The Valley Museum becomes Polli-Stoppani Onlus Foundation in December 1999 in recognition of the two founders and supporters. Its aim is the preservation of objects related to the uses, customs and folk traditions of the Brembana Valley. Also promotes research and the study of historical and artistic values of our Valley and organizes cultural events. The Museum was awarded in 1982 in Stockholm of the prestigious "best European Museum of the year 1981. Its founder was also a talented writer and in the year 2001 was awarded as "writer of Bergamo of the 20th century" for his copious and rich literary activity. The Museum is located in the historic centre in seventeenth-century Palace of the Furietti family where the founder of the civic library Angelo Maj of Bergamo, the Cardinal Alessandro Furietti was born and where in 1908 Vittorio Polli was born, too. In this House lived the "garibaldino" Pietro Volpi. The Museum is divided into 12 rooms complemented by external exposure inside a cloister, and exposes more than 2,500 objects. It is next to the opening of two new sections: archeological, paleontological and arranged into a structure adjacent to the stable of 600 largely semi-underground. The sections contain goods fossils dating back to 220 million years old discovered in the municipality of Zogno and deemed of international scientific importance. The archaeological material discovered, in the same municipality of Zogno, complete with other material found in the Brembana Valley.