Museum of Ancient History of the Bientina territory
Itinerary among the archeological artifacts found in the territory
The Museum of Ancient History of the Bientina Territory is located in the former Oratory of San Girolamo, an ancient 17th-century church once officiated by the Compagnia della Carità and now deconsecrated.
The museum documents the history of Bientina by preserving and exhibiting the proto-Etruscan and Etruscan-Roman age artifacts found in the area.
In fact, an Etruscan-Roman settlement stood here, then was submerged by the formation of Lake Bientina in the early medieval age. The museum hosts materials from the archaic Villanovan settlement (10th-11th centuries B.C.), pottery from the Final Bronze and Iron Age, the remains of an Etruscan house dating back to the 6th century B.C. with buccheri (a type of black, shiny ceramic) and used ceramics, the finds from the necropolis.
