The Museum, unveiled in 1986 in the old B.P.D. (Bombrini Parodi Delfino) factory of Colleferro, represents an essential landmark for those interested in discovering the environmental and settlement history of the Sacco Valley. The exhibition itinerary, set up on a single floor and organized in five different thematic sections, takes visitors on a journey through time that lasts over 200.000 years, from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, through findings and reconstructed models.

During the tour, visitors can access digital content via QR code to discover details and peculiarities of the findings displayed. To make the experience even more captivating, four virtual guides lead visitors through the tour with immersive tales of their time period, weaving together personal history and cultural context. The paleontologic section opens the itinerary with an extraordinary life-sized replica of the Palaeoloxodon antiquus, the great prehistoric elephant with straight tusks, flanked by fossils from the site on Pantanaccio Hill, among which are the remains of Bos primigenius and other extinct species from the middle Pleistocene period. The prehistoric section shows evidence of the first human dwellings along the Sacco river with stone tools and ceramics rediscovered on Rampo Hill. The Protohistory is illustrated with findings from the Bronze and Iron Age, including testimonies of the shed dwellings of Coste Vicoi.
The Archaic Period (VI-IV century BC) is narrated through materials from the settlement of the Muracci (walls) of Crepadosso: domestic ceramics and votive objects connected to a sanctuary dedicated to a female deity. The Roman Age is documented using the remains of rustic villas and housing units operational until the late Roman Empire, with epigraphs, coins, ceramics and metal objects.

The itinerary ends with a section dedicated to the Middle Ages, which reconnects with the history of settlements in the valley by displaying materials rediscovered in the early christian cemeteries of Saint Ilario ad Bivium, Paliano and Casa Ripi, from the excavation of the Piombinara and Colleferro castles and from the Rossilli Abbey, all functional between the XII and the XVII century.

Campagna fotografica realizzata nell’ambito del progetto “Oltre Roma” e finanziata dalla Regione Lazio, Avviso Pubblico “La cultura fa sistema 2021”