L’exhibition emphasizes everyday aspects, and the educational setup allows the understanding of incomplete objects by integrating and placing them in their proper contexts.
Educational Museum of the Territory. The exhibition is accompanied by a classroom where it is possible to work with materials kept in educational boxes. In this environment, direct manipulative approach, tactile knowledge, and practical application with the techniques of the time are encouraged. A section of the building is designated as storage for archaeological materials with a small area for washing, restoration, and cataloging. It is offered for small group visits by reservation so that students can follow the entire process leading to musealization.
The upper floor of the building houses the section. It contains all those tools of rural civilization that allowed the processing of wool, flax, hemp, and silk.
The educational apparatus allows the reinterpretation of the operational sequences, alongside practical tests. The connection with the dialect is well maintained.
The second room shows a reconstruction of “Cambra ad Cà,” which in our areas constituted the kitchen, the living room, the sitting room, that is, the family room of the whole house. The furnishings are not numerous but everyday objects are well represented: from kitchen items to flat irons and kerosene lamps for lighting, to warming pans, irons, and terracotta pots and rustic cutlery. This environment is also a workshop, due to the presence of a large rolling board used for sifting flour and making piadina and pasta.
At the edges of the room, work tools or those related to the stable, cellar, and storage are exhibited. A small room preserves the memories of the “school of the past” with characteristic dark solid wood desks, a standing blackboard, the first projectors, and other educational aids already “ancient” for the children who are now school-age.
The building is equipped with a park with a mound crowned by the monumental “albaraz” (white poplar) planted in the early years of the school’s establishment in the first decades of the 20th century. The wide expanse of meadows located at the back and on the west side makes it a privileged place for the study of herbs, insects, and recreational activities.
