 and 5th century A.D. on the northern edge of the lagoon that will be in Venice) and the nearby archaeological site of Altino are included in the UNESCO World Heritage site "Venice and its lagoon".At the end of the 1950s the construction of the museum began, based on a project by the architect Ferdinando Forlati, to collect the finds found at the end of the 19th century during agricultural work and during the first excavations of 1936-1937.Initially the objects were kept at Villa Reali in Dosson (Treviso).