Museo della Mezzadria senese

The Ethnographic Museum of Buonconvento Siena sharecropping is located near the medieval ramparts of the town and set up in the spaces of an old farmhouse, which preserves intact the main architectural structures. Opened in September 2002, the museum aims to collect different testimonies on sharecropping, an earth-run relationship where the owner put the land and buildings (the farmhouse, fields) and the settler, however, his work and of his family, with the final division of the product into equal parts. The length of his long life, from the thirteenth century around until the second half of the twentieth century, and the involvement of most of the Tuscan farming population have made sharecropping a very significant social phenomenon. Visit also the new dedicated webpage: www.museibuonconvento.com