This large room was specially built to display the dugout canoe made from a single beech trunk (6.16 x 0.71 m), found at Punta Calcino at the foot of Bisentina Island in 1989.
It is housed inside a glass display case placed across the room, resting on a floor of glass slabs that reproduce the water of the lake where it was found, allowing a view of the lakebed made with a resin to create a “water” effect. On one of the two long walls there is a large-format photograph of the lake with Bisentina Island to contextualize the discovery.
Within the same room are two maps: one a topographic context map and the other showing the lake levels through the centuries. In a small display case there is a Bronze Age terracotta fishing-weight and several models of the two pirogues found in the lake—the one on display and another still in the lake’s depths at Monte Bisenzo, the older and longer of the two (9.67 x 0.74 m).
Bibliography:
- A.M.Conti, E. Conti, Il Museo della Navigazione nelle Acque Interne di Capodimonte in P. Petitti (a cura di), Sul filo della corrente. La navigazione nelle acque interne in Italia centrale dalla Preistoria all’eta’ moderna, 2009, pp. 167-173
- P.Petitti, La piroga dell’isola Bisentina, in Schede di sala n. 6, 2009
