The Civic Museum was founded on 1st April 1949;together with the "Cesare da Sesto's Artistic and Historical Society".In 1954;with its first archaeological exhibition the museum was officially established.Nowadays the museum is housed in the 19th century town hall building of Sesto Calende and exhibits;in a modern display;archaeological finds of the Golasecca Culture which flourished in North-Western Italy during the last millennium B.C.The objects on display were found in the areas of Golasecca;Sesto Calende and Castelletto sopra Ticino;they are exhibited chronologically and supplied with broad and explicative didactic-type notices;including several illustrations and pictures in order to make them easily and pleasantly understandable.The Golasecca Culture is represented by several funerary objects from different necropolis;suggesting both a high demographic concentration and a diversified;evolved society.The Golasecca Culture has been the commercial and cultural intermediary between the Etruscan world;central Italy and the Transalpine world.The few finds brought to light concerning the inhabited areas relate to common working activities (kilns;querns;weaving tools;etc.) and bear evidence of hut flooring and cobbled paving.Recently;finds belonging to the "Bellini Collection" have been acquired.The museum also displays considerable objects of the roman period and the San Donato Abbey group of pluteus;dating from the early Middle Ages.There is an interesting collection of marine fossils from Cheglio di Taino;which has recently been classified by computer.