€ 3.00
(also includes a visit to the Museum of Natural Sciences “E. Caffi”)
Free for children under 18, persons with disabilities and accompanying persons.
The first display of the present Archaeological Museum was located in the Loggia under the Palazzo della Ragione in Piazza Vecchia, where it originated as a simple “Collection of Antiquities” and included a series of epigraphs.
Since then, the collection frequently changed location: the large, constant donations to the museum over its 5-plus centuries of life have in fact often made the spaces allocated to it insufficient.
In 1960, the Museum moved to a magnificent historic location, adequate for the enormous amount of artifacts housed: in fact, the collection can now be visited inside the 14th-century Palazzo della Cittadella, the work of the Visconti family, Lords of Milan, in an expanded and renovated layout on the occasion of Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture 2023.
Already the walls of this place will succeed in restoring to the visitor the historical value of the exhibits kept there.
Going through the halls of the Museum you will be able to retrace as if on a journey the history of Bergamo and its territory, from its origins in prehistory to the period of Longobard domination, in the Middle Ages.
And don’t be surprised if you encounter groups of children and young people.
In fact, the Educational-Cultural Center, an evolution of the Museum’s Guide Group founded in 1981, gives the Museum a strong educational imprint and very often organizes guided tours, workshops and activities aimed at adults as well.
€ 3.00
(also includes a visit to the Museum of Natural Sciences “E. Caffi”)
Free for children under 18, persons with disabilities and accompanying persons.
Tue-Fri 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. | 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat, Sun and holidays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Monday closed