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