Archaeology

From its outset, the museum has been a benchmark for local archaeology, dating back to the time when Pere Giró, a scholar and archaeologist by vocation, was a pioneer in the excavation of sites in the Penedès region during the first half of the twentieth century.

Today, the museum houses the material from more than 600 excavated sites; an essential testimony for understanding human activity in the regions of Alt and Baix Penedès and Garraf, from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, including the Iberian and Romanization periods. Added to this collection are pieces of great historical and aesthetic interest, such as amphorae, oenochoae, askoi or aryballoi, which entered the museum with the intention of illustrating the “Archaeological Wine Exhibition”, an exhibition that would become the genesis of the Wine Museum, and which was inaugurated in 1943, on the occasion of the “First Vine and Wine Fair”, held that year in Vilafranca.