The archaeological park

The Montale Archaeological Park and Open-Air Museum was created as an open-air section of the Museo Civico di Modena and is dedicated to the terramare, Bronze Age villages that dotted the central Po Valley around the middle of the 2nd millennium BC.

A park for the Terramare

From Bronze Age fortified villages to an archaeological park that reconstructs, interprets and narrates one of Europe's most important prehistoric phenomena.

The Archaeological Area

The excavations of the terramara at Montale reveal a fortified village from the Middle Bronze Age, which can now be visited in a museum space that preserves the original stratigraphy and fortifications.

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immersive

A new way of exploring the terramara of Montale: an immersive experience integrating archaeology, digital reconstruction and storytelling to experience the Bronze Age village in the first person.

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The open-air museum

The life-size reconstruction of a terramaricolo village makes it possible to explore fortifications, dwellings and spaces of daily life, based on archaeological data from the Montale excavations.

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Beyond the village: the Necropolis

A new in-depth study dedicated to the funerary rituals and symbolic practices of the Terramare communities, to understand the relationship between life, death and society in the Bronze Age.

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