The Museum;named after Giovanni Rambotti;eminent citizen famous for his collections of artifacts from Polada pile-dwelling;was opened in 1990.
The museum;because of his geographical position in an area rich in Bronze Age evidences;offers a wide survey of the prehistoric cultures of the Benacense district.
The exceptionality of this region;probably one of the most important in Europe in regard to the archaeological humid areas;comes from human deposits;nowadays submerged and set not far from the lake's shore or stratified in the peats of the inframorainic basins.
The museum highlight is a plough made of oak;dating back to Early Bronze Age (ca.2000 BC);discovered in a peat layer in 1978;stuck between the piles of a Lavagnone pile-dwelling.The museum is situated in the cloister of an ex-monastry (S.Maria del Carmine;1472;Bearfooted Carmelitans Order).The contiguous church;nowadays deconsecrated;was named after S.Maria de Senioribus.The cloister;rectangular in shape with 5 arches on each side end 20 columns;was finished al least in 1547.The building;now of public property;was renovated in1984.