The Civic Museum of Lodi was inaugurated in 1868. The purpose was to collect and preserve the archaeological finds found in the territory of Lodi Vecchio and the paintings of the Lodi school from churches or city collections. After 1954 the museum was divided into several sections: an archaeological, a ceramic and a Risorgimento. The Pinacoteca offers a collection that includes works from the fourteenth to the twentieth century. The sixteenth-century pictorial culture of Lodi is represented by the painters Alberto, Martino and Callisto Piazza. We also find artists of the caliber of Camillo Procaccini, Francesco Hayez, Osvaldo Bignami and Carlo Zaninelli. The collection of ceramics consists of excavated finds from the 15th and 17th centuries belonging to factories in Lodi, Pavia and other centers in northern Italy. Antonio Maria Coppellotti, Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, Simpliciano and Giacinto Ferretti and the Dossena family belong to the main ceramic schools that flourished in Lodi. The finds from the Bronze Age, the kits from Roman cremation tombs and the equipment from the Lombard tomb from Dovera constitute an important body of finds found in Lodi Vecchia.