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Material Culture "La Bötega del Frèr" Museum The museum, located inside the workshop of a blacksmith from the first years of the 18th century, it is however able to move the operating machines located in the first room of the workshop, through a hydraulic wheel. In the forging room instead you will find equipment for forging iron as well as a vast series of products; in the last room we would like to highlight, among the various technologies, that related to building weights, measurements and steelyards. … read more... Gallery “Stories of wagons and cartwrights” The ecomuseum was established with the idea of givin historical value to the tradition and building techniques of farm wagons. The farm wagon, used by the citizens of Zimone, was the essential instrument that brought together work in the fields with the home, daily labour to family affection. The objective of the museum is also to display what the cartwrights represented for the territory and how the wagons made farm work easier. read more... “The Iron and Diorite” ecomuseum The ecomuseum, inside the Mineral Centre, has a Museum of Minerals and equipment of the Traversella mines that has a mineral collection of more than 300 samples, a systematic collection of minerals that are typical of the local deposit, an exhibit of work equipment and instruments recovered inside the mine and the adjacent buildings. In the external area of the complex, educational itineraries offer the possibility of visiting the Mineral Geopark: a portion of the … read more... Gallery “Time Memories” Educational Museum A strictly educational museum set up inside the Town hall, displays multiple objects used during the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century divided into themed sections. Each displayed piece is catalogued with the name in Italian, in Piedmont dialect and accompanied by a description about how it was used. There are archeologicalartifacts from the Roman Era and fossils present, as well as casts of rock engravings, whose presence was found in many … read more... AMI MUSEUM NETWORK The Ecomuseum of the Ivrea Morainic Amphitheatre has promoted and organised the AMI Museum network since 2011. This is a project that involves a group of municipalities in the area in implementing a widespread museum system by creating a network of existing small museums and ecomuseums. The initiative envisages a single promotion action, coordinated and continual site opening, training a group of young operators and their employment in museums, involving local … read more... Civic Museum “Nòssi Ràis” Located in the birth home of the historian Carlo Botta (1766-1837), the museum illustrates the life and agricultural and artisan activities of the past (this gave the name “our roots”) with work instruments, reconstructions of environments and clothing of that era. It is an important collection of documents regarding the material culture, among them, a curious “horn straightener” and 2 examples of the 19th century phono-stenographic machine of Antonio Michela, from … read more... Gallery Ecomuseum of the Chestnut The ecomuseum of Nomaglio has an antique watermill, still in operation, used to grind chestnuts from you can obtain the flour used to make gastronomic products. The ecomuseum system is integrated with an external marked route which, starting from the central square of the town, rises up to the chestnut groves where it is possible to see: century old chestnut trees, the antique buildings where the leaves were kept, the burr storage buildings where empty burrs are … read more... Gallery Gold and stone Laboratory Museum The museum originated from a research by the University of Turin to promote the areas of the Bassa Serra and the archeological area of antique Victimula, at San Secondo. The rooms are dedicated to working of gold and stone, the Giovanna de’ Monduro witch trial, the Resistance with the Salussola massacre and the figure of don Francesco Cabrio. A space dedicated to a collection of antique weighing scales and steelyards. read more... Mineral Museum of Brosso The museum is located between the Ca’dMartolo building, where there are 5 exhibit sectors: the place (maps and photographs), man (photographs), the history (documents), the material (minerals), the equipment (tools from different eras). It is of particular interest to visit the metallurgical sites along the stream Assa, where it is possible to observe testimonies of the local metal processing technologies: “low fire” or “brossasca”. There are numerous rosting ovens, … read more... Gallery Museo Vischorum The Museum, founded in 2004, witnesses and recreates the life of a rural community between the nineteenth and the twentieth Century by exhibiting artifacts, daily use objects, tools, furniture and clothing donated by the Vischese population and organised according to specific thematic areas. read more... Gallery 1 2 > >>
