Museo di storia della mezzadria

About the museum

The Museo comunale di storia della mezzadria “Sergio Anselmi” has been housed since 1978 in the complex of Santa Maria delle Grazie, among the hills of Senigallia. It documents life and work in the Marche countryside in the first half of the 20th century and the long history of sharecropping (mezzadria), an agricultural system based on the daily relationship between landowner and peasant, widespread in the Marche since the 14th and 15th centuries.

Access is through the Renaissance cloister of one wing of the former convent. The roughly two thousand works and tools are spread over thirty thematic rooms: olive presses, grain-sorting machines, tools for repairs, the kitchen, looms, hemp processing and, in the basement, a large cellar.

On the first floor the routes devoted to wheat, wine, maize, sugar beet and everyday life are accompanied by historic photographs by Mario Giacomelli and Mario Carafòli. The museum organises in-depth meetings on popular culture and old trades and, in summer, the series “Uomini e paesaggi” (Men and Landscapes), active since 2005 on history, the rural environment and the Adriatic Sea.

Highlights

• Thirty thematic rooms in the former Convento delle Grazie
• About two thousand objects of rural life
• Renaissance cloister at the entrance
• Large cellar in the basement
• Historic photographs by Mario Giacomelli and Mario Carafòli

Permanent exhibition

• Percorso sulla vita contadina e la mezzadria – Thirty rooms with about two thousand objects, including olive presses, tools, the kitchen, looms, hemp, the cellar and routes on wheat, wine and maize.

Founded

1978

Operated by

Comune di Senigallia

Visitors per year

approx. 6,000

Admission & discounts

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Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

According to the municipality of Senigallia’s listing, the museum is accessible to people with disabilities; animals are not admitted.

Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

The museum is in the former Convento delle Grazie, on the hills of Senigallia (Convento delle Grazie 84).

Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

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