Museum of Arts and Traditions of Puglia, Latiano

The Museum was born from the desire of some enthusiasts of popular culture who sought the most varied objects from our recent past, combining them with the environments to which they refer.  The exhibition depicts everyday life, in the fields, in workshops, within the family. All environments, artifacts, and tools are illustrated with captions in Italian and the Latiano dialect. The Museum represents one of the few connections between modern popular culture and  the artisanal and farming civilization.

The educational usefulness of this museum lies in its openness to receive every life behavior of the inhabitants of the towns and countryside of Puglia. 

Very interesting in this museum are the reconstructions of the essential environments of the typical Puglian house: domestic, artisanal, agricultural. The first, the domestic one, is exemplified by the reconstruction of a peasant house from the late nineteenth century, with bedroom, kitchen, corner for bodily needs, washbasin. The second, the artisanal room, preserves tools for female and male work. 

The agricultural area is represented by a collection of the most common farming tools: hoes, mattocks, pitchforks, plows, and harnesses.”

Info: Separate location for the ceramics section: via S. Margherita