A journey through time, discovering how people lived in the past in mountain areas.
The "Ethnographic Museum of Rural Mountain Civilization" allows visitors to learn, through objects and testimonies, how private life and typical work activities of the mountains unfolded: the work of the cheese maker and the butcher.
Visitors can enter a traditional home, featuring the kitchen, the center of family life, and the typical master bedroom, as well as an exhibition of tools used in the fields and forests.
Letting the objects tell us how we were, while listening to the sounds that surrounded them, is the best way to understand our roots and pause to reflect on how much of that past we carry with us.
In the 1970s, the last "caselo" of a turn-based dairy closed, where families of small farmers brought the milk they had milked every morning. The building, renovated, has been designated to preserve a piece of history of the mountain community of Tonezza. The evidence of agricultural and livestock activities that have always been practiced in the territory of Tonezza del Cimone is represented by the exhibition of cheese-making tools, furnishings, and everyday life objects. The different phases of milk processing are also showcased.
The Museum guides visitors through a journey to a time long past: for some, it will be a pleasant return to the past, for others, an inspiring discovery of a vanished world.
