The Bronze Age

During the early and middle Bronze Age, the Pascolone settlement developed in the Fimon valleys, with huts on reclaimed land and pile dwellings, dug in the nineteenth century by the Vicenza naturalist Paolo Lioy.
The materials include one-handled jugs and fabric large containers from the early Bronze Age, as well as large bowls and moon-shaped handles from the middle Bronze Age.

The Fondo Tomellero settlement belongs to the middle-late Bronze Age, with huts on reclaimed land that have yielded numerous pieces of pottery, including cups with moon-shaped handles and with apofisi cilindrorette, large bowls and double-cone vases, as well as two examples of bronze median-winged axes. The settlements of Monte Crocetta in Arcugnano and Castellon del Brosimo again date back to the Middle-Late Bronze Age, when there was dense settlement of the hilly areas, with fragments of round-bottom cups, bowls, double-cone vases and fabric large containers.

Materials from the later phase of the Late Bronze Age and Final Bronze Age come from the Capitello settlement on reclaimed land. This period saw the end of the population cycle of the Fimon and Berici Valleys, which had generally started during the Neolithic.

The incineration tombs from Mount Summano (Santorso) and from Montebello Vicentino date back to the Final Bronze Age, as do artefacts in bronze, bone and horn, glass paste and amber from the Berici area and from the Vicenza area in general.

Displays include a wooden model of leg-hold traps used for capturing stag and roe deer. The five original traps, found in the Fontega Valley in the nineteenth century and generically datable to the Bronze Age, were destroyed during the Second World War.