Foiana Museum of Farm Life

The Farmers' Museum in Foiana takes you on a journey back to a time of hardship and uses numerous implements, tools and everyday objects to show how arduous life was in earlier times. The idea for the museum was born in the 1970s and it opened in 1977. The museum found its home in an outbuilding of the rectory - where the oven, woodshed, laundry room and pigsty used to be.

Today, the Foiana Museum Association looks after the collection, which is mainly dedicated to the 18th and 19th centuries. On the ground floor, you can discover a replica farmhouse parlour. Other rooms display tools, baskets and equipment for processing flax. A special piece is the grain mill from Auna di Sopra. The upper floor is dedicated entirely to the old techniques of spinning and weaving.

By the way: a visit to the museum can be combined with a leisurely hike along the Foiana Chestnut Trail, which starts near the museum and takes about an hour and a half.