Museo Agro-Pastorale dell’Area Ellenofona

About the museum

The museum documents the farming culture of the Bovesìa, the Grecanic area of southern Aspromonte, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It holds one of the oldest ethnographic collections in Calabria, assembled in the 1970s by the scholar of southern Italian affairs Pasquino Crupi and the iconographer Domenico Candela to preserve the memory of Grecanic culture, which remained alive in the area until the second half of the last century.

The collection comprises about three hundred artefacts linked to the area’s main crafts, accompanied by black-and-white photographic documentation. There are displays on the work of the shoemaker and the blacksmith, basketry, weaving and herding, with unusual objects such as the musulupare, wooden moulds for a Lenten cheese typical of the Grecanic area. Other sections deal with music, work in the fields and the extraction of bergamot oil, illustrated by a model of a Calabrian machine from the 1930s.

Highlights

• About 300 artefacts of the farming and pastoral culture of the Bovesìa
• One of the oldest ethnographic collections in Calabria
• Shoemaker’s and blacksmith’s work in a single staged display
• Wooden “musulupare” moulds for Lenten cheese
• Model of a Calabrian machine for bergamot oil

Operated by

Comune di Bova Marina

Visitors per year

approx. 1,040

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