Sisàn museum

The museum of ornithological fishing traditions and hunting in the Lake Garda district

Attention Museum temporarily closed.

The Sisàn Museum, located at Cisano (Bardolino), is a unique museum of Lake Garda territory. It is organized in 3 different sections:

the ornithology and mammals section, where the specimens are displayed and subdivided into habitats of frequentation during the period of nesting or during winter. This area has recently been restored to consent the valorization by school groups, tourists and for scientific research;

the ichthyic and fishing section, in which each specimen present in Lake Garda is illustrated in detail and on the monitor there is a detailed description in Italian, English and German. There are rare tools used for professional fishing on display: fixed place nets, vertical and circular nets, lobster pots, harpoons of different sizes, fishing lines and boats; all with clear descriptions to show the different methods of professional fishing used in the past on Lake Garda, which up to the 1970s was an important activity of sustenance for many families;

the ancestral hunting section, with a collection of the equipment used for hunting in the territory: cages of various sizes; call whistles for the imitation of bird singing; fittings for making homemade bullets; wood, cork and straw moulds for hunting on the lake, exposition of a punt boat, used for aquatic hunting on the Italian lakes up to the beginning of the 1970s; a scale reproduction of a Roccolo (a structure used for the capture of birds alive using vertical nets).