Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina
San Michele all’Adige via Mach 2
+39 0461 650314
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 12.30 and from 2.30 to 6pm
Closed on Mondays, except Easter Monday
Admission € 5, reduced € 2,5
educational activity prior reservation € 2,5
The roots of a populationWork, art and devotion in mountain life |
 tel. 0461 650314 |
    .jpg) What does living in a mountain territory imply ? What life styles and methods of work did the inhabitants have to invent and adapt in the course of time? What influence did this difficult land with adverse climatic and logistic conditions have on the population and on their cultural and artistic expression? And what was their attitude towards religion and devotion? These are only a few of the questions answered by the exhibition displayed in the museum. Founded in 1968 by Giuseppe Šebesta and hosted in the ancient Augustinian convent of San Michele all’Adige, a few kilometres from Trento, the museum is the most important Italian centre of local ethnography. The rooms represent the chapters of a story that takes the visitor into the daily life of the mountain population. An unexpected world dominated by the culture of work evidenced by the tools used in farming practices, the art of wood, cloth, stone and metals expressed in precious artistic productions of clothing and music, the surprising way the agro-pastoral work is integrated in the delicate territorial system and the inventiveness of the great watermills, water hammers, and Venetian sawmills, water being perhaps the most widespread resource in the whole of the Alps.Besides the permanent exhibition, the museum offers educational activities, publications and studies, among which the Permanent Seminary of Alpine Ethnography that, since 1991, meets annually. The museum, with its well-stocked specialist library of ethnography, anthropology and Trentino local history and its Provincial Archives of Oral Tradition, also on the Internet, is the ideal place to discover the past and the roots of Trentino. |
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