Museo Archeologico Ambientale (Environmental Archaeological Museum) is a municipal and cultural structure which deals the study and the diffusion of archaeology and history from antiquity to the present day. The Museum has two thematic exhibition locations placed in San Giovanni in Persiceto and Anzola dell’Emilia ranging from protohistory to contemporary age.

Museo Archeologico Ambientale (Corso Italia 163, San Giovanni in Persiceto – BO)
Opening times:  Sunday: 10.00 – 12.00; 17.00 – 19.00
Open on request, tours and didactic activities contacting the Museum Secretary office.
CLOSE: July and August, Christmas and Easter festivities.

Tickets: full rate 4 euro, reduced rate 2 euro (under 14), free admission 0-6 years.
Access for disabled people.

The Archaeological Museum of San Giovanni in Persiceto, inaugurated in 2004, is hosted in the historical building of Porta Garibaldi, a former penitentiary. The exhibition, rich of finds, reconstructions, pictures and explicative texts, underlines the most important archaeological finds of Persiceto territory: from roman rural houses located in the centuriation area, to Crocetta medieval fortified settlement of Sant’Agata Bolognese and renaissance workshop wich produced pottery in San Giovanni in Persiceto. Particular emphasis is given to environmental aspects and to understand the relationship between man, environment and territory during centuries.

Museo Archeologico Ambientale (via Emilia 87, Anzola dell’Emilia – BO)

Opening times : Saturday: 10.00 – 12.00; Sunday: 16.00 – 18.00. Open on request, tours and didactic activities contacting the Museum Secretary office.
CLOSE: July and August, Christmas and Easter festivities.

Admission free, access for disabled people.

The Museum in Anzola dell’Emilia, inaugurated in 2011, exhibits finds from a terramare settlement excavated in the 90’s; the study of this finds has made possible to understand the origins and the relationship between man and its territory, but also with Europe, Mediterranean sea and Near East area during Bronze Age. Very interesting is the room which, through wall drawings and replicas of finds and furnitures, creates to the visitors the effect of living in a Bronze Age hut.

INFO: segreteria@agenter.it – phone number: +39.051.68717857