The Museum was instituted in 1978 at the initiative of the townspeople of Raggioli, for the purpose of conserving the memory of rural life and crafts in the past. The exhibition is set up in the Raggioli ARCI Centre, which manages it. In 2002, after having been closed for some time due to damage caused by a flood, the Museum was reopened.

The Museum's ethnographic collection displays a wealth of objects of everyday use, typically employed in the mountains, implements used by shoemakers, carpenters, and blacksmiths, tools for work in the fields and the forests. These objects (19th and 20th centuries) have been donated by the townspeople of Raggioli.