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Museums around the Country of Turin

Visititaly recommends the list of museums to visit around Country of Turin, the most important attractions for spending a day with friends and family. Visiting a museum is an effective learning method, used effectively both by schools to improve their educational offer and by tourists wishing to learn about the history and culture of the area. Italy boasts nearly 5,000 museums, archaeological areas and ecomuseums, a cultural heritage widely distributed throughout the territory, in fact one out of three Italian towns has at least one museum. Discover the galleries, art galleries, permanent exhibitions, collections and collections, plaster casts, foundations and all the places related to culture in the surroundings of Country of Turin. If you have visited a museum and would like to share your experience with others, please report it here!

Avigliana - Museums

Dinamitificio Nobel

An extraordinary example of industrial archaeology of the early twentieth century, the Nobel Dynamitificio was built in 1873 on a hill on the edge of the town of Avigliana. Equipped with electricity and an internal railway connected to the Avigliana station, it was equipped with a chemical laboratory and produced, in addition to explosives, chemical intermediates, by-products of processing main, fertilizers and varnishes. During the Last World War the plant was the scene of bombing and partisan actions, and closed its doors in the 1960s. The Nobel Dynamitificio Museum, inaugurated in 2002, is a piece of the collective memory of the territory and testifies to the social and productive transformations that occurred over the years. Unique in its kind, it offers an interactive set-up with videos, documents, explanatory panels, vintage photographs and tools used in the production of explosives. In addition, the Museum provides a visit route that, touching the anti-aircraft shelter for workers, tunnels and burst rooms, allows the visitor to immerse himself totally in the reality of the factory, touching the dangerousness and life difficulties of the workers.

Bardonecchia - Museums

Museo Civico Etnografico

Do you want to know the testimonies of the material culture of the old mountain village of Bardonecchia? Since 1954 there is the Ethnographic Civic Museum, housed in the nineteenth-century building once the seat of the municipal house. It offers an insight into the daily life and culture of mountain people, and illustrates the rhythms of the agricultural and pastoral economy that characterized the country before the advent of mass tourism. It collects objects, furniture, furnishings and tools, as well as a small section of sacred art. It is also possible to observe the local women's costume and the precious lace made in a ring, a traditional workmanship that is still practiced by some local women. Also on display are objects and work tools, photographs and vintage postcards depicting views of the time that was.

Novalesa - Museums

Museo archeologico dell'Abbazia

In the millennial abbey of Novalesa since 2009, the Archaeological Museum exhibits most of the finds that emerged from the excavation campaigns conducted from 1978 to today, as well as two sections dedicated to monastic history and to restoration of the book. The first room is dedicated to the restoration of the book, art still practiced today in the laboratory attached to the abbey, and illustrates the types of writer supports, the evolution of writing, the techniques of engraving and press, and restoration. The same room also houses the section dedicated to the history of monasticism and monastic life. In the third room there is the largest number of artifacts, grouped according to chronology: fragments of statues, funeral inscriptions, parts of sarcophagi and architectural elements, everyday objects and fragments of fresco pictorial decorations assigned to the intervention of Tolosan Anthoyne de Lhonye.

Vaie - Museums

Museo laboratorio della Preistoria

Located in the heart of the historic center of Vaie, the Museum Laboratory of Prehistory offers the visitor the collection of experimental reconstructions and casts of the finds of Vayes. The thematic path, completed by a series of illustrative panels, presents aspects of everyday life in Prehistory, with particular attention to materials, technologies and uses. To learn about prehistoric materials, tools and procedures, numerous workshops are active designed for children and adults, also for people with special needs. In addition, demonstration days and internships for adults take place during the year.

Moncenisio - Museums

Ecomuseo Terre al Confine

The small town of Moncenisio hosts at the ancient “common house” the Ecomuseum Terre at the Border, which illustrates the daily life and the environment of border territories such as those of the Val Cenischia and the Cenischia crossing Moncenisio. The ecomuseal route includes, in addition to the exhibition room, also an external itinerary that touches the common oven, the sink, the mill, the sundials painted on the facades of the huts. In addition, in the area of the Great Lake, some panels illustrate the history of the Fell Railway, which at the end of the nineteenth century connected Susa to St. Michel de Maurienne through the Moncenisio pass.

Salbertrand - Museums

Ecomuseo Colombano Romean

The Colombano Romean Ecomuseum in Salbertrand, in the Gran Bosco Natural Park, collects the memories of land and water of the community. The route includes: the hydraulic mill, which tells 800 years of exploitation of water, from feudal milling rights to the production of electricity; the school of the past and a set-up ethnographic; the common oven of the Oulme hamlet; the ancient charcoal maker and the lime furnace; the nineteenth-century ice box with the adjoining supply pond; the smoke-sauna built thanks to a project European conducted by the Politecnico di Torino; the site dedicated to the Glorious Return of the Waldenses. The tour also includes the splendid parish church of St. John the Baptist and the chapel of the Annunziata di Oulme. Ancient buildings and artifacts present themselves to the visitor as examples of a past today to be discovered. For school groups and organized groups there are thematic accompaniments carried out by specialized guides and educational courses have been devised. In addition, since 2006, the cultural association Ar.Te.Mu.Da animates guided tours to the ecomuseum with theatricalized accompaniments.

Villar Pellice - Museums

Ecomuseo di Archeologia Industriale "E.Crumière"

The Ecomuseum of Industrial Archaeology “E.Crumière” was built in 1995 by the collaboration between the Municipality of Villar Pellice, the Mountain Community Val Pellice and the Cooperative Nuova Crumière. The factory was transformed into a museum to avoid the degradation of a typical architecture of a village and in this way to allow the recovery of the materials of the factory that rebuild life economic of the company.

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