Museum MUV - Museum of the Villanovan Civilization

Welcome to MUV, the Museum of the Villanovan Civilization in Villanova di Castenaso, located near Bologna, Italy.

This land gave rise to the term Villanovan even though, before MUV’s establishment, there were no visible traces in the area of this 1st millennium BC civilization hailed as the Etruscans’ ancestors.

The Museum is set in the complex of Casa Sant’Anna, which originally belonged to Count Giovanni Gozzadini and is now municipal property. This change of use is a typical example of renovation for public use of a rural structure in the Bologna plain.

CREDITS

MUV – Museo della civiltà Villanoviana

via Tosarelli 191 – 40055 Villanova di Castenaso (BO)

phone number +39 051-780021

www.muvcastenaso.it

Texts in Italian: Paola Poli and Marina Sindaco

Texts in English: Bianca Brizzante and Marina Sindaco

Photo: Rino Tantini

Images: Used with permission from Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC) - Soprintendenza Archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Bologna e le province di Modena, Reggio Emilia e Ferrara, no-profit reproduction, including indirect reproduction.