The D. Dal Lago Civic Museum is in Valdagno.
Valdagno is a small city in the Province of Vicenza in the North of Italy.
The museum is located inside an old palace in the centre of Valdagno.
The name of the palace is “Palazzo Festari”.
All people can enter the palace and the garden to visit the museum. There is also a garden in the palace.
People who visit the museum are called visitors.
Visitors can be men and women.
The museum is open:
• on Saturday afternoon from 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM (only a part of the museum).
• From Monday to Friday and on Sundays, you have to make a reservation to see the museum.
The museum is free.
So people do not have to pay to enter the museum.
The museum is in Valdagno.
The address of the museum is:
Museo Civico D. Dal Lago
Corso Italia, 63
36078 Valdagno (VI)
People can get to Valdagno by car or by bus.
And close to the museum, there are parking lots for cars.
You can call the museum to ask for information.
The museum has two phone numbers.
The two phone numbers of the museum are:
• +39 0445 42 45 07
• And +39 0445 42 45 08
You can also write an email.
The email address of the museum is: museo@comune.valdagno.vi.it
The Naturalistic Section of the museum is barrier-free for all people.
The Naturalistic Section is a part of the museum.
There is an elevator to get to this section of the museum.
Toilets are also barrier-free.
In the Naturalistic Section, there is also a tactile path.
- Tactile path means:
- Some texts are written in Braille.
- So also blind people can read the information.
The Archaeological Section is not barrier-free for all people.
The Archeological Section is a part of the museum.
There is an elevator in this section of the museum.
But there are also stairs with some steps.
There is not so much space on these stairs.
And toilets are not barrier-free for all people.
There are a lot of old objects in the museum.
These objects are called findings.
Findings are very important objects.
Experts look for these objects for a long time.
Then they take these objects to a museum.
So all people can see the findings and learn:
A long time ago, there was this thing in nature. For example, a very old knife.
Or people used this thing.
And today, this thing does not exist anymore.
In the museum, there are a lot of texts and pictures that show, for example:
• What the findings are.
• Where people found the findings.
• And who found the findings.
So visitors can learn:
• Once the valleys and the mountains of Valdagno looked like that.
• And there were these objects in the area of Valdagno.
• And people used these objects to get dressed or to hunt animals.
And there were these plants and animals in the area of Valdagno.
People found a lot of findings in the valley where Valdagno is located.
This valley is called Agno Valley.
There are very important mountains close to Valdagno.
Researchers from all over the world come to Valdagno
to study the rocks of these mountains.
The objects of the museum are published in an online catalogue.
An online catalogue is like a book on the Internet.
In this online catalogue, people can see, for example, pictures of the rocks or the fossils of the museum. Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that lived many years ago. These remains are often inside stones.
To see the online catalogue, click on this link: catalogo online
Audio guides.
People can use an audio guide to visit the museum.
This means:
A person can use, for example, the mobile phone
to read a QR code.
QR code is short for “quick response code”.
The QR code is a small black and white square.
With the QR code, a person can connect the phone
and listen to a recorded voice.
This recorded voice explains what you can find at the museum.
There are 3 sections in the museum:
• The Naturalistic Section
• The Archaeological Section
• And the garden
The Naturalistic Section.
In the Naturalistic Section visitors can see, for example:
• Rocks and minerals.
- Rocks and minerals are stones.
- These stones have different colours.
- And also different shapes.
• Fossils.
- Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that lived many years ago.
- These remains are often inside stones.
- Thanks to fossils, people can still see today:
- A long time ago plants and animals looked like this.
• Examples of plants.
• And examples of animals.
The Archaeological Section.
In the Archaeological Section visitors can see, for example:
• Stone arrow points.
- People used stone arrow points thousands of years ago to hunt animals.
• And old coins.
- People used these coins hundreds of years ago to buy things.
The garden.
People can also visit the garden of the museum.
In the garden, there are two big examples of animals made of wood.
These animals lived millions of years ago.
Today these animals do not exist anymore.
The name of the D. Dal Lago Civic Museum comes from a doctor.
The name of this doctor was Domenico Dal Lago.
Domenico Dal Lago can be also written like this: D. Dal Lago.
About one hundred years ago, this doctor gave his geological collection
to the City of Valdagno.
- Geological collection means:
- A person collects many rocks and fossils.
- Then this person puts the rocks and the fossils in order.
- And this person writes, for example, where and when they found the rocks and fossils.
This doctor collected rocks and fossils all his life.
He wanted to know what the area of Valdagno looked like in the past.
And he also wanted to show young people
what the rocks and the fossils of the area of Valdagno look like.
About forty years ago, the City of Valdagno decided to show
all people the geological collection of Domenico Dal Lago.
So the City of Valdagno founded a museum.
Today the name of the museum is “D. Dal Lago Civic Museum”.
You can learn a lot of interesting things at the museum.
The experts of the museum teach visitors
the history of the area of Valdagno.
And they organise events as well.
These events are, for example:
• Guided tours and meetings.
• Excursions through the valleys and the mountains of Valdagno.
• And workshops and exhibitions.
- During workshops visitors try, for example, to make objects
using old techniques and materials. - So visitors can learn:
Many years ago people made these objects in this way.
The events of the museum are for:
• Children from kindergarten and primary school.
• And boys and girls from the secondary school.
Videos and podcasts.
The experts of the museum publish videos and podcasts online.
In these videos experts show, for example, what you can see
in the museum.
And in podcasts they talk about, for example, what the area of Valdagno looked like.
All people can see videos and listen to podcasts
on the website of the museum.
The museum has also a YouTube channel.
The link to the YouTube channel of the museum is:
www.youtube com/@museocivicodallago6376