Val Resia Ecomuseum represents a new model for the management and the enhancement of the territory, for an active and integrated conservation of the local naturalistic and historical-cultural heritage and the relaunching of the social and economic activities of the interested community. The ecomuseum involves the whole valley: it is a museum scattered throughout the valley territory, to visit by following a series of thematic trails along which the physical, biological, and cultural features will represent the stations or the observation points of a more general itinerary. Not only: today the image of a territory is defined through aspects which go beyond geography, landscape, and environment; they also include other material or immaterial resources like houses or barns, life and job habits, products of oenology and gastronomy. The ecomuseum is therefore a key to read the territory and an instrument to promote the heritage in which Val Resia is extraordinarily rich.
Val Resia Ecomuseum consists of four routes, called "Vie", leading to particularly significant places called "Piazze":