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Civic Archaeological Museum
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Civic Archaeological Museum ---

The first exhibition of the current Archaeological Museum was located in the Loggia beneath 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 has frequently changed location: the substantial and constant donations to the museum over its more than 5 centuries of existence have indeed often made the spaces allocated to it insufficient. In 1960, the Museum moved to a magnificent historic location, suited to the enormous amount of artifacts housed there: the collection is in fact now viewable within the fourteenth-century Palazzo della Cittadella, a work of the Visconti, Lords of Milan, in a display that was expanded and renovated for Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture 2023. Already the walls of this place will be able to r

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