The Territorial Museum of Lake Garda presents itself as an ideal place to connect with the memory and roots of the area. It gathers objects used until the first half of the 1950s in fishing, agriculture, carpentry, and everyday life by the lakeside communities. The exhibited materials, donated by private individuals or collected in the area, were partly gathered over decades by Professor Luigi Bertamè, a Garda scholar who dedicated his life to ethnographic research in his hometown. The raised ground floor is dedicated to agriculture, livestock, craftsmanship, and extractive activities. Here, we find tools, work instruments, and everyday items from the “people of the lake,” dating back almost a century. On the upper floor, the focus shifts to the world of fishing, which has always been a symbol and pride of Garda. All the exhibited materials have been carefully restored, keeping alive the memory and interest in those mythical figures who used them, as a testimony to an ancient, industrious civilization deeply connected to its land and traditions.
