Description
The Valley Museum, founded in 1982 by Don Federico Scanziani, tells the story of the Cavargna Valley, a peripheral and impervious valley that was difficult to access until 1953, when the provincial road was completed. The ethnographic institution documents local mountain traditions, traditional crafts and housing adaptations of the alpine environment.
The exhibition route
The museum is divided into several thematic rooms that illustrate daily life in the valley through the centuries:
- Hydroelectric power plants and media room With documentaries on traditional crafts
- The Magnans: tinkers, coppersmiths, boilermakers and the blacksmith's forge
- Popular religiosity: liturgical furnishings and eighteenth-century statues
- Mountain breeding: the barn, mountain pasture and milk processing
- Woodworking: charcoal, carpentry, smuggling and chestnuts
- Flours and grains: antique dough machine and bread ovens
- Wool processing: traditional costume and living interiors
- Steelmaking and alpine fauna: local minerals and the shoemaker's trade
Educational visits
The museum offers four educational tours for primary and secondary schools, lasting from 2 to 6 hours: mining and steelmaking (with access to the Mezzano mine), the memory of traditions, the magnani craft and Rungin slang, and folk religiosity.
Recognized as a Museum Collection by the Lombardy Region in 2007, the Valley Museum is managed by the voluntary cultural association “Friends of Cavargna.”.
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