Inaugurated in 1982 and housed in the fourteenth-century Palazzo dei Capitani, the Museum forms part of the Mugello – Upper Mugello - Val di Sieve Decentralised Museum.

The collection, containing over a thousand objects resulting from thirty years of research by local volunteers, includes utensils, instruments and machinery typical of life and work in the mountains, such as charcoal-burners' apparatus, tools for work in the woods and the fields, and implements from mills. The objects date from a period ranging from the 17th to the 20th century.