Post on 15-Feb-2019
The new National Museum of Prehistory in the centre of the UNESCO site “Rock Drawings in Valle Camonica” Raffaella Poggiani Keller and Maria Giuseppina Ruggiero- MiBACT
24th ICOM General Conference, Milano 4.7.2016
Valle Camonica (Brescia, Italy): • 80 km on a surface area exceeding
1.300 sq. km.
• people: about 96.000
• 173 places with rock engravings have been certified in 34 of the valley’s 41 municipalities
• totalling at least 1.500 engraved rocks located at an altitude strip ranging from 300 to 2.400 m/asl.
UNESCO World Heritage Site n. 94: 173 places with rock engravings
The UNESCO site n. 94 “Arte Rupestre della Valle Camonica” (criteri III e VI, 1979) Management Plan, 2005
POGGIANI KELLER R., LIBORIO C., RUGGIERO M.G. (eds.) 2007, Arte rupestre della Valle Camonica Sito Unesco n. 94. 2005 Piano di Gestione, Quaderni del Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri, 2, Bergamo.
The Management Plan of the Valcamonica Site n. 94, 2005
Public institutions:
Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities-Lombardy Soprintendenza for Archaeological Heritage , coordinator Brescia Provincial Authority (Provincia di Brescia)
Valle Camonica Mountain Community and Valle Camonica Drainage Basin Council Consortium (BIM)
Darfo Boario Terme, Capo di Ponte, Sellero and Sonico Councils and the Rock Engravings Consortium of Ceto, Cimbergo and Paspardo Councils 2011-2012: new entry Edolo, Ossimo, Borno Councils
Managing Authority for the UNESCO site n. 94:
GIC-Gruppo Istituzionale di coordinamento
The Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica is the local referent, in partnership with
Soprintendenza Archeologia della Lombardia.
Project financed by Law 77/2006 and implemented in 2012 and 2013.
The data show that the middle valley was the centre of the “Valle Camonica rock art” phenomenon. Another significant nucleus of rocks lies at the beginning of the valley, in the Darfo Boario Terme municipal area.
MuPRE. The museum is housed in a 16th century building located in the
historic town centre, which was partially modified in the 18th century, when the pre-existing agricultural and residential constructions were united into a single structure.
MuPRE The project promoter: MiBAC/MiBACT, between 1997 and 2013
Financings •MiBAC - Piani triennali ordinari (1997-1999; 2002; 2005-2006) € 943.927,00 - Fondi straordinari Lotto 2010 € 100.000,00 •ARCUS spa 2010-2011 € 1.000.000,00 •Fondazione CARIPLO (Project Distretto culturale) € 400.000,00
Projectors • 1997-2008 rebuildings work : arch. Francesco Curcio, Emanuela Carpani-
MiBAC; ing. Silvio Calvi • 2008-2013 rebuilding project and museum design: arch. M. Teresa
Piovesan and G.Maria Labaa • Archaeological display: arch. Renata Demartini, R.Poggiani Keller-MiBAC
MuPRE: the museum is strategically
located at the intersection of routes leading to the rock art parks present in the zone.
MUPRE-The National Prehistory Museum of Valle Camonica and multimedia: touch screen
touch screen
"Birth of a logo": Secondary Schools, II level
MuPRE has also an important role as an “extended” museum
• Documentation Centres
• network of rock art sites and parks
• Thematic and multi-theme itineraries organized
on the historic pathways network
The houses
From Documentation Center the hematic itinerary to Cevo- Dos del Curù (2000 m s.l.m.), Iron Age metallurgy settlement. Taskscape example
Casa D
Casa F
Casa B
1. Parco Nazionale delle Incisioni Rupestri a Capo di Ponte, 1955
2. Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi di Cemmo a Capo di Ponte, 2005
7. Riserva Regionale delle Incisioni Rupestri di Ceto Cimbergo e Paspardo, 1983
3. Parco Comunale di Luine a Darfo Boario Terme, 1973
4. Parco Archeologico Comunale di Seradina-Bedolina a Capo di Ponte, 2005
5. Parco Comunale di Sellero, 2009
6. Parco pluritematico del “Còren de le Fate” a Sonico, 1990/2007
8. Parco archeologico di Ossimo-Anvòia, 2005
9. Sito archeologico dei Corni Freschi-Darfo Boario Terme, 2009
10. Sito archeologico di Borno-Valzel de Undine, 2013
Museo Nazionale della Preistoria, Capo di Ponte, 2014
Rock art sites and parks in VALLE CAMONICA
The Archaeological Park “dei Massi di Cemmo” and landscape, 2005
The site of Cemmo, with the famous two boulders engraved during III millennium BC, was found in 1909. During the research for paleoenvironment reconstruction, the archaeologists found a megalithic sanctuary.
Laghetto effimero
Cemmo 2 Cemmo 1
The Historical Paths Plan and the development of the Cultural landscape
Cedegolo: the “Black Paths Route” at Dosso Poglia.
Along the historical paths, of different periods, they are the archaeological and the rock art sites of Valle Camonica.
On this network it’s possible to create the links between the Parks and the multi-thematic Visit Paths for the development of the Cultural Landscape.
Military path-XX cent.
Thematic itinerary Earliest writing sites, 2009 and still in course Landscape: view from Piancogno
Rock art
Camunni inscriptions itinerary Piancogno
Aosta-Area megalitica e Museo di St. Martin de
Corléans
MuPRE-Museo Nazionale della
Preistoria della Valle Camonica
Bolzano-Museo archeologico dell’Alto
Adige
Area archeologica di Velturno-
Località Tanzgasse
•Parco Archeologico Nazionale dei Massi
di Cemmo
• Parco Archeologico di Ossimo-Anvòia
• Sito archeologico dei Corni Freschi-
Darfo Boario Terme
• Sito archeologico di Borno-Valzel de
Undine
•Museo Museo Civico
di Riva del Garda
•Area archeologica di
Sovizzo-S. Daniele
Sezione
archeologica
di Palazzo
Besta-Teglio
Museum network