Museo

To understand Garda and learn much about its past, one must visit The Territorial Museum of Lake Garda, a place where memory becomes alive and indispensable for planning the future.
Small and hospitable, it consists of an exhibit that succeeds in bringing to life the roots of the territory.
The rooms display objects used until the first half of the 1950s in fishing, agriculture, carpentry and daily life by the people of the coastal communities.

The mezzanine floor is devoted to agriculture, animal husbandry, crafts and mining. Here we find tools, working implements and objects from the daily life of the “people of the lake,” dating back to a world almost a century ago.
On the upper floor the focus shifts to the world of fishing, which has always been a symbol and pride of Garda. Matross (cylinders), the tirlindane (wooden boxes), anchors and turbets, are on display alongside huge fishing nets, tools that at the end of the 19th century allowed the catching of trout and the highly prized local carp.

A symbol of such a dense history is the Pal del Vò, which in the museum has been reconstructed with some pieces of the original. The pole was placed at the highest point of the underwater ridge connecting Punta San Vigilio and Sirmione by the Corporazione degli Antichi Originari di Garda, which still boasts centuries-old fishing rights in the lake. The tin flag on its top indicates the holders of fishing rights, acquired in 1452 from the fishermen of Torri, Garda and Sirmione by Costermano nobleman Andrea Becelli.
All the materials on display are donations from private individuals or found in the area. They are unique pieces restored and described even using the local dialect, projecting the visitor to an era that seems remote, but of which new generations should be not only curious, but aware and proud.

The museum is dedicated to Luigi Bertamè, the Garda scholar who devoted his life to ethnographic research in his own country and whose work of incalculable value was put to good use with this place.
Address: Lungolago Regina Adelaide 15, Garda VR