INTRODUCTION TO THE BUILDING

The collections of the Civic Museum are the result of a assiduous search lead from the Eng. Guido Sutermeister in the years between 1925 and 1964, in the territory of the city and the zones on the surroundings.

Thanks to studious the yields possible, in 1928, the construction, with I use it of the rests of the origin, of a building that resumed the plant of the '400 dwelling of the Lampugnani family that became the center of the city museum.

The Museum of Legnano in particular coming from archaeological material conserve therefore from the city and the surrounding territory. Draft of rests recovers for more in the course than diggings for demolition and for construction of buildings to leave from the first years of 1900, period in which the our zone, thanks to the mechanical industries and textile, knew a remarkable economic well-being. The collections then have become rich with a consisting nucleus of materials land you to the Museum from diggings of the Archaeological Upcenter of the Lombardy and donations until 1997.

THE BUILDING 

The Porch  
In the porch, constituted from arched to columns with ceiling in wood originates them of 1400, are placed to tombs in stone datable between the centuries b.C. and the IV-V century a.C.; on the wall they make moreover beautiful extension of himself you vary frontal of fireplaces pertaining to rich citizens of Legnano dwellings of 1500 and 1600. 

Room of the Exposures 
In the room to flat earth it is exposed one entire necropolis, constituted from 39 tombs, recovered S. Lorenzo of Parabiago, little distant locality from Legnano, in Milan direction.

These necropolis, dug from the archaeological upcenter of the Lombardy in years 1991 and 1993, are not only testimony of the funeral rituals in use in our territory between the century b.C. and the II century a.C., but it documents the uses, the habits, the customs of the populations which the interments refer.
During the ritual of the funeral the boneses combuste collections in urns or great containers for alimentary commodities (amphoras). The rests of the dead man were also directly place you in the knot earth but always it accompanies you from those objects that in the life more had been beloveds or were use to the defunct one, the so-called tombal equipment.

The tombal equipment is composed from objects of ornaments and for the cure of the body (rings, bracelets, pins, coralls for necklaces, mirrors, tweezers, containers in glass for ornaments and scenes), pottery of use current for cooking (pots, covers, water jugs etc.) or refined for the catering (plates, glasses), instruments for the working activities (shears, calipers, scrapings for the tannery of the skins, makes us for pruning, knives from butcher, styles in order to write, surgical tools) let alone in the great part of the cases, from the coins that served to the defunct one for the payment of the toll for the transit in the Afterlife. The reconstruction of the ancients rests and than those recent ones carries out S. Lorenzo of Parabiago and the study of the rests from part of the archeologs has concurred to assume for this locality, like for all our territory, in the period correspondent to the imperial roman age (the century b.C.- IV century a.C.), a distribution for small scattered takeovers, places near the course of the Olona river, with and mostly handicraft agricultural economy which it joined, like other resource, the commerce. Some rests attest in fact the livelity of the exchanges between the center of Italy and the north of Europe, where inhabited Celts, and of such exchanges benefitted in particolar way i ours 'VICI', strategically situates along the ways of transit and to the connections between the south and the north for our continent.

ASSOCIATION OF BOLOGNA

Hall of the 'LOGGETTA'  
Hall of the 'Loggetta' to the Association of Bologna conserve material decided for chronology and tombal contexts.

The objects testify that ancient people, with the relative cultures, that they have inhabited the territory to leave from the Age of Copper (2000/1800 b.C.) until the invasion of the Germanic tribes of the Longobards (centuries a.C.) from which the Region take the name.

Hall of honor and adjacent room
Of particular elegance it is the 'Hall of honor', that it collects one great collection of coins, exposed and catalogued scientifically, in chronological sequence; the distance with the coins in silver and bronze is begun magnogreche (IV-III centuries b.C.), continues with those of republican, imperial roman age and of the late empire (for all the roman age the coins came used in order to pay symbolically the toll for the defunct one that and in the Afterlife: it is the so-called 'OBOLO OF CHARON'); there are then the emissions bizantins, subsequently those coined from the getlteman whom they held in they to be able Ducato of Milan and annexed lands, before the Visconti and then Sforza, finally the coins to the centuries XVII-XVIII, when northern Italy was governed respectively from the Spanish and the Austrians. In this hall can moreover be admired three great burlaps of a Ferrara's painter pertaining to the artistic current of the period of division, Gaetano Previati, lived between the half of the '800 and first of the '900. The paintings reassume the three fundamental moments of Battaglia del Carroccio 29 Maggio 1796, probably in the outskirtses of the city: some Lombardic Common joined in society (Lombardic Alloy) and swore to fight the excessive expected interferences of the German emperor Federico of Svevia, saying 'the Barbarossa', in their political issues, social and economic. The crash was resolved with the winning of the Lombardic Commons commanded from Alberto da Giussano (whose monument is very visible in the city public square dedicated to him), re-united around the cross, mails on a wagon, hauled from cows white men, called 'CARROCCIO'. Also in this premises the beautiful ceiling in wood can be noticed from the rich decoration, always coming from the Manor House of the noble Lampugnani. In the adjacent room the honor hall has been ideally recreated the preprefer room of the private qualification of a collector, than here conserve and exposes its treasures. Such treasures in fact, collected from a fan of art, comprise ceramics, bronze manufacture and glass of several origin: Greece, Magnagreece, Etrury, Northern Italy that covers a wide chronological arc: from the IX century b.C. to the III century a.C.
In particolar way the Museum is characterized nearly for the considerable amount of objects coming from roman ages exclusively from interments.

ACCORDING TO PLAN 
Room of the Tower in preparation.

ACTIVITIES OF THE MUSEUM
The activities of the Museum are, from years turned in several directions.

All the exposed material has been restored in the course of the last 15 years in tightened collaboration with the Archaeological Upcenter of the Lombardy. Draft of material already conserved in the warehouse of the Museum or emerged from diggings is carried out in the course of these years.

With the material restored annually new extension equipped from panels explicated comes prepared one along a distance that, in this way, turns out documented also the didactical scope.

Every extension is placed side by side from one publication of scientific character of wide spread above all between the students, the Soprintendenze, the University and the Museums.

It comes organized, annually a cycle of conferences to archaeological topic called 'the thursdays of the Museum' that it collects from always numerous consents.

Finally visits guided from archeologi are previewed that the visitors in the several ones lead know them of the Museum illustrating and commenting, for ognuna of they, the characteristics.The visits are carried out on reservation.