The musée d’Archéologie nationale de St-Germain en Laye (St-Germain en Laye National Archaeology Museum) presents the Golasecca exhibition from November 27, 2009 to April 26, 2010.
During the First Iron Age, the Celts’ main trading partners were traditionally the Greeks and the Etruscans. Yet other peripheral communities have proven to be important intermediaries in this traffic between temperate Europe and the Mediterranean. Chief of these were the Golasecca. The exhibition seeks to demonstrate the specificities of this culture within the communities of the Alpine Arc.
If we know what we do about the Golasecca, then it is thanks to the interest, knowledge and passion of a young abbot, who undertook excavation, conservation and detailed documentation of many tombs and discoveries in the Golasecca district in the late 18th century. Several elements underline the specific place of Golasecca culture in the development of the culture of the Western Hallstatt.
Amongst the objects exhibited are funerary objects from several tombs, such as the lid of a vessel for holy water found at Grandate, the sepulchre objects from the “Dun road”, the items from the Arbedo cache, and various objects from the collection of the National Archaeology Museum, including tomb No. 4 from Monsorino, as well as rubbings, drawings and watercolours.
More information:
Official site of the Musée d'archéologie de St-Germain en Laye (French only)
National Archaeology Museum, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Place Charles de Gaulle
78105 Saint-Germain-en-Laye Cedex |