Il Sale della Terra. Museo di Comunità - Manciano

It 'reached the finish line of the preparation of the peasant culture collection of Mario Babbanini within the premises of the Agricultural cooperative "Philip Mazzolai", organized by volunteers from the Circle Arci Manciano on behalf of the Culture of the City of Manchester. The exhibition, entitled "The Salt of the Earth. community museum "will be officially inaugurated Saturday, November 5 from 15.00 hours at the headquarters of the Cooperative in La Sgrilla - regional road. 74 km 22 .All objects, dating back approximately to the period between the late nineteenth and fifties, an option, integrating the reconstruction of environments and focus on individual instruments have been restored and has been designed, can return daily life in mancianesi campaigns before the economic boom. A path that winds of 90 square meters and consists of more than 250 pieces, ranging from agriculture, livestock, handicrafts and domestic economy, which Babbanini has collected with great care and sensitivity and to give this City of Manchester, hoping that this priceless historical and cultural heritage was made available to the community; Today the collection is a perfect location within the building from the early fifties which houses one of the oldest working Cooperative Maremma still in business. To accompany the use of the exhibition, in order to respect the original design of Babbanini, the curators chose the texts that the collector has collected in his book "Time and Memory"; The decision to open the museum on the day of the eve of the patron of Manchester symbolizes what we hope the curators of the project, namely, that this is only a first step on the road to rediscovery of cultural and social values ​​that underpin our territory (reciprocity , thrift, the deep connection with the earth and with its rhythms, solidarity), and the starting point of a wide-ranging project that enables the recovery and re-enactment of the great historical heritage material and immaterial (local historians, archives , associative experiences) which is abundant in our City.