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

UNESCO World Heritage Site n. 94 “Rock Drawings in Valle Camonica”

R. 1-National Park

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 – Museo Nazionale della Preistoria

della Valle Camonica

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 and the park network of UNESCO Site “Rock Drawings in Valle Camonica”

MuPRE. Section Manifestations of the Sacred: Copper Age megalithic sanctuaries

MuPRE. Section Manifestations of the Sacred: Copper Age

megalithic sanctuaries

MuPRE. The Prehistory and protohistoriy of Valle Camonica section, on the 2nd floor

MuPRE. The Prehistory and protohistoriy of Valle Camonica section

MUPRE-The National Prehistory Museum of Valle Camonica and multimedia: touch screen

touch screen

"Birth of a logo": Secondary Schools, II level

“Table” touch screen: general themes and navigation

Touch Screen, along the route: writing

Activity: "Write your name in camunian alphabet"

Touch Screen: "Rock art Parks”

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

Lago Moro Documentation Centre, 2013

Cevo. Documentation Centre Archeologia della Val Saviore, 2013

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

Cevo, Dos del Curù: iron age houses before and after the restoration

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

Parks and archaeological sites: some examples

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

Corni Freschi - Darfo Boario Terme (III mill. a.C.), 2009

Valle Camonica: Borno, Valzel de l’Undine. The sanctuary is along a little river, near a fall.

Borno, Valzel de l’Undine. 2013

Thematic and multi-theme itineraries

organized on the historic pathways network

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

from Piancogno to Convento Annunciata

Itinerary Earliest writing sites

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