Museo Civico

The Civic Museum "Ubaldo Formentini" of La Spezia has been founded in 1873 around to a first nucleus of naturalistic collections donated from Cesar Podenzana (1840-1884), father of Giovanni Podenzana. With the encouragement and the aid of the geologist they break Giovanni Capellini, after hardly three months from the foundation, the Museum accommodated already, beyond to the zoologiche collections, also the reperti archaeological come in light during the diggings of the river basins and of giving itself some of the Military Arsenal, some geographic parchments, papers and regarding documents the history of the city. Subsequently, in the years to horse of the two centuries, the searches had remarkable impulse top-paletnologiche on the territory, conduct from illustrious scientists between which the same Giovanni Capellini. The always increasing interest for the territory and its more ancient history carried to the most important archaeological discoveries: the Museum became rich, since the first decades of the 1900's, the presence of the statues stele pertaining to the age of Copper and the age of the Iron.