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  • Electric whirlpool basin for grapes Garolla, Cecina, c.1950 , Museo della Vita e del Lavoro della Maremma Settentrionale, La Cinquantina, Cecina.zoom in altra finestra
  • Must filtering machine  for the production of "vin dolce"; below, barrels of wine, Montescudaio, c. 1940, Museo della Vita e del Lavoro della Maremma Settentrionale, La Cinquantina, Cecina.zoom in altra finestra

Museo della Vita e del Lavoro della Maremma Settentrionale [Museum of Life and Work in Northern Maremma]

The Museum, founded in 1992, contains implements used by farmers in the territory of northern Maremma. In 2003 the new exhibition design was inaugurated on the premises of the eighteenth-century Villa Guerrazzi. The collection is organised by themes: working the earth (ploughs, wagons, mowing machines, threshing machines), grain (ventilators, sieves, forage choppers), wine (grating to separate stalks from grapes, whirlpool basin for grapes, sulphur sprayer, hoppers Some weaving implements are also included in the exhibition.

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Texts by Francesco Marchetti

English translation by Catherine Frost

Last update 25/feb/2008