• Municipalities

  Teggiano

• Address

  Piazza Santissima Pietà, 1, 84039 Teggiano SA

• Telephone

  0975 79600

• Website

  www.prolocoteggiano.it

Description

The Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of Teggiano collects objects that testify to a bygone era, between the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, documenting daily life, work and popular religiosity in the period before industrialization. It is set up near the Church of Santa Barbara, inside a municipal ancient building.  

The collections, enriched by donations from Teggiano families, bring together objects linked to common use, traditions and old professions such as that of the farmer, the spinner, the carpenter and the blacksmith. The photographic collection present in the Museum is interesting: various photographic plates that portray the historic centre, habits and customs of Teggiano between the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the following century. The Museum was established in 1986 in an old farmhouse and collects objects and work tools that illustrate the daily life not only of the farmer, but also of the artisan. It contains: looms, spinning wheels, plows and tools to perform all the functions required by peasant life.

The small museum of Teggiano is a treasure chest of artefacts, kept alive in their original function, from the ancient loom for weaving cloth, still functioning and with the cloth started, to the gromola for hemp, the reels, the spinning wheels, the plows forvoxen and for horses, lamps, tools for mowing, reaping, threshing, sieving and working with wood.

The collection is completed by objects, music, costumes and above all the documentation on the work cycles that still exist today, such as, for example, the processing of milk, the production of bread, wine, oil, and the cultivation of flax and hemp.

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