Il museo del Vino (MUVIT) is housed inside Palazzo Graziani-Baglioni, along the main street of Torgiano, a renowned wine production center between Perugia and Assisi. The palace, built in the 17th century, represents an important example of a rural-gentleman’s house. Summer residence of the Perugian Graziani family, it received its double name in the 19th century following the marriage of Anna Graziani to Pietro Baglioni. Since 1974 it has been the seat of the Wine Museum (MUVIT), conceived and created on the initiative of Giorgio and Maria Grazia Lungarotti. It is unique compared to other local museums as it is a private museum with a thematic character, motivated by historical and cultural intentions rather than business ones. The collection is divided into several thematic sections all focused on wine. Visitors can admire rare and important archaeological finds such as wine amphorae, jugs and symposium cups, ceramics from the early Middle Ages to the contemporary age, engravings, winemaking tools and, unique in its kind, the collection of waffle irons. Managed by the Lungarotti Foundation, the museum occupies the rooms of the palace formerly intended for the storage and processing of agricultural products. Among the most interesting objects: 16th-century ceramics by Master Giorgio Andreoli, a skilled executor of the lustre technique; engravings from Mantegna to Picasso and the 18th-century monumental press called “Catone”, active until 1973. Also exhibited inside the museum are special jugs of the “Drink if you can” type, linked to the playful and convivial aspect of the banquet: the drinker is challenged as he must identify the mechanism that allows him to access the wine.
Information about Wine Museum Torgiano (MUVIT)
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 31
06089 Torgiano (Perugia)
0759880200
prenotazionimusei@lungarotti.it
https://www.lungarotti.it/fondazione/muvit/
Source: MIBACT
