Museo etnografico Walser
Ethnographic museum in the hamlet of Sella di Rimella on Walser rural culture and the community's relationship with the mountain environment.
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About the museum
The Museo etnografico Walser di Rimella is located in the hamlet of Sella, in the house known as “ex eredi Vasina”, inhabited until the 1970s. The building, restored in the 2000s and owned by the municipality of Rimella, also houses the Archivio etnolinguistico (ethnolinguistic archive), the Centro di documentazione Walser (Walser documentation centre) and the Centro Studi Walser di Rimella (Walser study centre). The museum was inaugurated on 10 October 2009.
The museum collects, preserves and passes on the distinctive features of the rural life of the Walser culture settled in the upper Val Mastallone, a side valley of the Valsesia. The route is devoted to the relationship between people and the mountain environment and presents the material culture of the agro-silvo-pastoral system that for centuries supported the Walser community of Rimella, with an approach close to ecomuseum themes.
The objects are shown within their production cycles: milling, above all in the hamlet of Grondo; the extraction and laying of piode (stone roofing slabs); the farming cycle with summer pasture and hay-making; work in the woods; food and natural remedies. Oral testimonies help to understand the community's role, for example through the mill of Grondo.
Highlights
- Walser material culture of the upper Val Mastallone
- Work cycles: milling, stone slabs, summer pasture and hay-making
- Woodland work, food and natural remedies
- Oral testimonies of the community
- Seat of the Walser Study Centre and the ethnolinguistic archive
Permanent exhibition
- Percorso etnografico sulla cultura walser – Material culture of the agro-silvo-pastoral system of Rimella: milling, stone slabs, summer pasture, hay-making, woodland work, food and natural remedies.
- Founded
- 2009
- Operated by
- Comune di Rimella
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| Good to know | Visits are organised by reservation; the municipality's website gives no prices or other arrangements. |
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