Housed inside a Visconti Castle, seat of the federal landfogs from 1513 to 1798, the Archaeological Museum exhibits: archaeology of the Locarno region from the late Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages, an important collection of Roman glass

Housed inside a Visconti Castle, seat of the federal landfogs from 1513 to 1798, the Archaeological Museum exhibits: archaeology of the Locarno area from the late Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages, an important collection of Roman-era glassware discovered in Canton Ticino, pottery from southern Italy 7th-2nd centuries B.C. (Carlo Rossi bequest), a numismatic collection from Magna Graecia (Athos Moretti Donation), Romanesque bas-reliefs. In contrast, the Civic Museum includes a documentary exhibition on the Locarno Pact (1925), various 18th-century costumes, some Nymphenburg porcelain attributed to Francesco Antonio Bustelli. Temporary exhibitions are held in the 16th-century building called Casorella.


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