Museo Etnografico Val Trebbia

The Ethnographic Museum Trebbia was founded in June of 2000 with the objectives of preserving, enhancing, and pass on to revive the memory of the farming culture of the Trebbia Valley. Visit the Museum means to make a real "blast from the past", relive a slice of rural life, the common heritage that binds us to our history, all to safeguard and to know. Through the "rooms of" the visitor memory can approach the peasant reality lived as a witness made the objects of everyday life for generations. The Museum, this is its peculiarity, has a place in farmhouses unique dwellings Apennine rural architecture Piacentino, entirely preserved in their original condition with restoration work aimed to preserve its original features. Here, Callegari, small subfraction of Bobbio overlooking the town of Cassolo, tells the peasant life often hard and tiring it was divided into a harmonious man's relationship with its river, its land, bound by intense family religiosity. The structure, as a whole, consists of kitchen, store-room "Architect Fabrizio Bertuzzi," the costume room, the frame, the bedroom, the carpentry, the barn, milk room, the basement, barn: local 14 to about 2,000 objects, tools and furnishings dating from the '600 to the first post-war period, a total of 400 square meters to be visited. The exhibition will provide the opportunity to be able to pull over to the crafts and ways of practicing them (the cultivation of the fields, the processing of milk, grapes, wheat, etc.) that testify to the peculiarities of the rural economy in this Trebbia up 60s. The exhibition continues outside of courtyards, covered walkways, ladders, courtyard, stalled, linking the inhabited part of the threshing floor, the barn and the ortivi spaces. The museum choice emphasizes the narration of rural life, offering to new generations the reconstruction of an organic whole that allows us to understand the unfolding daily work, functions and rites, preferring more functional rooms and the testimony that numerical collection of objects. At the center of the museum complex overlooking a tower house of the end '400, used to hospitality according to the formula of B & B: B & B Al Museo.