The Museum, conceived and created by Prof. Beniamino Tartaglia, with the collaboration of the entire Aquilonia community and the contribution of all Local Authorities, reconstructs with historical rigor work environments, living contexts, and life scenarios of the ancient upper Irpinian world. A whole vanished world is reborn intact in about 14,000 original objects, recovered through patient research work, full of use and stories, marked by the effort and sweat of centuries. The Ethnographic Museum holds the daily and centuries-old history of a community; it contains the authentic life of many generations brought back to life in tools and equipment, trousseaus and furnishings, utensils and household items, artifacts and documents of all kinds, which have not been organized by collections but used only (and this is the peculiarity and uniqueness of the Museum) to rigorously reconstruct living and working environments, allowing a glimpse into authentic scenarios of lived life, to take a journey full of emotions into an ancient reality and to immerse as if by magic in the millennial history of our civilization. The Ethnographic Museum, a highly effective educational tool, is like a large book written with the silent and evocative language of material culture, which immediately fascinates and involves the visitor. The exhibition routes, spread over about 1,500 sqm and an equipped outdoor area, wind through rooms, spaces, and stands in more than 130 environments, grouped into 12 thematic sections: ? peasant house and stable: 2 ? agricultural activities and plant world 28 ? crafts 52 ? food production 7 ? folk traditions and anthropology 16 ? local history 6 ? archaeology 1 ? stone material 1 ? protoindustry 7 ? animal world and wildlife flora 4 ? plant-based peasant diet 2 ? miscellaneous 8 The Ethnographic Museum of Aquilonia, in its kind, is among the most articulated, organic, and complete in Italy: there is no aspect, even minimal, of the existence of the community of former times that is not represented and rigorously documented.
Information about Ethnographic Museum “Beniamino Tartaglia”
Via Carbonara, 3
83041 Aquilonia (Avellino)
082783826
https://www.aquiloniamusei.it
Source: MIBACT
