Museum of Arts and Traditions of Puglia, Latiano

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

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

Very interesting in this museum are the reconstructions of the essential environments of the typical Apulian house: domestic, artisanal, agricultural environments. 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, laundry. The second, the artisanal room preserves tools of female and male work. 

The agricultural sector is represented by the collection of the most common tools of land work: hoes, mattocks, pitchforks, plows, and harnesses.”

Info: Detached branch for the section dedicated to ceramics: via S. Margherita