The museum is located in ancient rural houses built in a typical Apennine architecture. The exhibition allows visitors to get to know crafts and their practice.
The exhibition offers the opportunity to discover the ancient crafts related to the rural world, delving into how they were practised and the tools used.
The building as a whole consists of 14 rooms with a total area of approximately 400 square metres. The exhibits include around 2,000 objects, work tools and furnishings dating from the 17th century to the early post-war period. The exhibition is also developed in the outdoor space, among small courtyards, covered walkways, stairs, an inner courtyard, stables – structures that once connected the part of the building used as a dwelling to the part dedicated to peasant work and livestock breeding (the farmyard, stables, porches, wood-burning ovens, vegetable gardens).
The Val Trebbia Ethnographic Museum bears witness to the daily life of entire generations, linked to the continuation of a farming economy until after World War II. The collections present objects that are both useful and artistic: richly inlaid 17th-century planes, 19th-century corkscrews with high reliefs, agricultural machinery resembling modern art sculptures.
