The Muvar - Museum of Man of the Val Rosna, in Sovramonte (Belluno), inaugurated in 2024 wants to tell the first human population of the Alps. Reconstructions and films deepen all the aspects emerged from the finding of the burial of the hunter of the Upper Paleolithic and above all illustrate the primates that this discovery can boast: his burial and remains are among the oldest to date found in alpine area, the set of painted stones is an extraordinary example of funerary art and its dentition reveals the first case of dental care in history.
After Ötzi, the Man of Similaun (lived 5300 years ago), and Valmo, the Man of Mondeval (lived 8 thousand years ago), the "family" of prehistoric men who have populated the Alps welcomes the Man of Val Rosna, also known as the Man of Villabruna, dating back to 14 thousand years ago, to the Epigravettian, last phase of the Upper Paleolithic.
It was 1987 when Aldo Villabruna found, in a construction site in the municipality of Sovramonte at the confluence of the streams Rosna and Cismon, remains of human bones and an arrow point dating back to the Epigravettian, last phase of the Upper Paleolithic. The news surprised the scientific world and the University of Ferrara began a campaign of excavations that brought to light three shelters that exploited the rock wall, frequented several times during the prehistory.
The Muvar proposes a didactic-educational itinerary that makes use of the latest multimedia reconstruction techniques.
The nine rooms that constitute the scientific center deepen the aspects related to the burial of the Man of the Val Rosna: from the representation of the places of the find, the life of prehistoric man, up to the particular burial, allowing you to get to know the ancient ancestor and his habits.
