Museo di vita montana in Val Cenischia

About the museum

The museum was founded in the 1970s to show young people how their grandparents lived. The objects on display were donated by residents of Novalesa, and each one carries a label with its name in the local Franco-Provençal dialect and an Italian translation.

It is located in Via Maestra, in the centre of the village, in a 17th-century building that once housed the primary school. There are five rooms. On the ground floor one room gathers tools linked to work in the fields, transport, haymaking, grain, woodcutting and woodworking, and grape harvesting and winemaking.

On the first floor the kitchen with its large fireplace, the bedroom with festive men’s and women’s costumes, and a room for processing milk, wool and hemp have been reconstructed. Another room is set up as a classroom from earlier times and is also used for school visits and to tell the story of the valley. Among the finds are materials linked to the rock engravings in the area.

Highlights

• Mountain house reconstructed with kitchen, bedroom and work room
• Tools for haymaking, grain growing, grape harvest and woodworking
• Traditional men’s and women’s costumes
• Old-fashioned school corner
• Labels in Franco-Provençal patois with Italian translation

Permanent exhibition

• Vita montana in Val Cenischia – Work tools, reconstructed domestic rooms, costumes and an old-fashioned school are displayed over two floors.

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Getting there & parking

The museum is in Via Maestra, in the centre of Novalesa, a short distance from the parish church.

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