Museo dell'Agro Pontino

About the museum

The Museo dell'Agro Pontino, also known as MAP, opened in 2011 in Pontinia, in a building from the 1950s that was originally a covered market. The museum preserves evidence from the periods before and after the land reclamation and presents materials from antiquity to the twentieth century, organised in themed rooms.

The routes cover the fight against malaria, the land reclamation of the 1930s and the transformation of the environment that followed, with attention to the founding of the new towns during the Fascist period and to recent archaeological finds in the area. The museum's narrative focuses in particular on the migrants who populated the Pontine plain between malaria and reclamation: everyday objects are displayed alongside historical sources on the transformation of the territory and of society.

Highlights

• Sections on the fight against malaria and the Pontine land reclamation
• Account of the settlers and migrants of the Agro Pontino
• Panels and charts of the land reclamation
• Founding of the new towns
• Everyday objects and historical sources

Permanent exhibition

• Percorso museale sulla bonifica e sul popolamento dell’Agro Pontino – Themed rooms on malaria, the land reclamation, the new towns, the settlers and the archaeological finds of the territory.

Founded

2011

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