Museo del costume e della tradizione della nostra gente
Ethnographic museum in Guardiagrele with around 700 finds on rural and craft life between the 19th and 20th centuries, in reconstructed domestic interiors.
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About the museum
The museum was founded in the 1980s from a historical and environmental study carried out by students of the town's secondary schools, coordinated by a group of enthusiasts. With around seven hundred finds it documents the period between the 19th and 20th centuries, when Guardiagrele was predominantly a rural and craft community.
The visit introduces two aspects of life in the past: the patriarchal family, with its rules and rhythms, and the rural and craft community, with numerous trades that have now disappeared. The rooms reproduce the most characteristic domestic spaces: a kitchen with oven, fireplace, kneading troughs and copper pots, with an area for spinning and weaving equipped with a working loom, and a bedroom devoted to the customs linked to marriage and the dowry, with women's clothing and handmade jewellery.
Other spaces are devoted to the trades: cabinetmakers and carpenters, dyers, shoemakers, potters, chair-makers, coppersmiths and wrought-iron craftsmen. The museum is run by the Pro Loco “Porta della Majella” and is part of the Guardiagrele museum circuit.
Highlights
- Reconstructed kitchen with oven, fireplace and working loom
- Bedroom with the customs linked to the dowry
- Room of traditional arts and crafts
- Women's clothing and handmade jewellery
- Around seven hundred finds from the 19th and 20th centuries
Permanent exhibition
- Percorso permanente sulla vita contadina e artigiana – Reconstructed domestic interiors and craft workshops with around seven hundred finds from the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Operated by
- Pro Loco «Porta della Majella» di Guardiagrele
- Visitors per year
- approx. 2,500
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
Free admission for adults and children.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Outside August, visits are possible by appointment through the Pro Loco. |
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