Museo Etnografico dell'Alta Brianza

The Ethnographic Museum of Alta Brianza was founded in 2003 and is defined as ethnographic museum as it uses in his research, the method of investigation practiced anthropology: it consists in the encounter between the researcher and the bearer of a different culture from his , such as farmers, workers, fishermen, hunters, spinners, housewives, cooks, which are observed in their daily activities and interviewed during a long association. The past so interested before the researcher and the visitor of the museum then, because the present habits and customs that they urged him to confront and to question to explain and understand the cultures "other."

The MEAB is a museum because of this live and find meaning in the testimonies of those who today can tell from the recent past and its transformations based on direct experience. That's why it looks like a "museum of voices and gestures" of the protagonists of the significant activities of the territory.

Such an institution wants to be "the Company" museum not only because it enhances the cultural heritage but also because widespread calls for active involvement of significant sectors of the community.

The museum becomes, then, with its mission of continuing education, place of confrontation between different habits, place of analysis and reflection on our culture and on our complex society, beyond the myth as widespread an idyllic past.