Valfurva Valley Museum 'Mario Testorelli'
An ideal place to discover our past
The ethnographic museum was born in the 1960s from an idea by Mario Testorelli, who patiently and carefully collected objects, tools, and furnishing witnessing the rural and craftsmanship culture of Valfurva.
Originally situated in Oratorio dei Disciplini, in front of the parish church of Valfurva, it has been recently and permanently moved to the old school premises of Sant'Antonio country hamlet, which have been wisely renovated.
The material is divided into sections reproducing house and workplace premises: the kitchen, the bedroom, the rural activities, the cheese-making activity, spinning and weaving, the cobbler's shop and the carpenter's shop, the blacksmith's shop and the rope maker's shop.
Further sections are dedicated to the Great War, sacred art, school, mountaineering, and skiing.
The Museum is completed with a mill for rye milling and a still working wood-burning oven used to bake bread.
