Museo della civiltà contadina di Santa Caterina e delle Sante Spine

About the museum

The museum is housed in the former church of Santa Caterina, in Piazza Cesare Battisti in Montechiaro Alto, and holds the tools used in the fields, vineyards, stables and cellars from the second half of the 19th century to the 1960s.

The objects on display include ploughs, bottling machines, a hand harrow and a cocoon-reeling machine. One section is devoted to household objects: oil lamps, hand-made skis, wooden snowshoes, foot warmers and baskets. The collection also includes the old books of the Confraternita di Santa Caterina, lanterns and processional robes, as well as stones, tombstones and finds from the area of the destroyed castle.

The municipality also reports that, in the oratory of Sant’Antonio next to the parish church of San Giorgio, there is a museum room dedicated to the relic of the Sacre Spine (Holy Thorns), with paintings by Severino Baraldi and a copy of the Sindone (Shroud).

Highlights

• Tools for fields, vineyards, stables and cellars (1850–1960)
• Ploughs, bottling machines and a cocoon-reeling machine
• Household objects: hand-made skis and wooden snowshoes
• Books and processional robes of the Confraternita di Santa Caterina
• Finds from the destroyed castle

Permanent exhibition

• Raccolta di civiltà contadina – Farm tools, household objects, books and robes of the confraternity, and finds from the destroyed castle.

Operated by

Comune di Montechiaro d’Acqui

Visitors per year

approx. 850

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