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Museo Etnografico del Bosco e della Mezzadria Sovicille
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Museo Etnografico del Bosco e della Mezzadria
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ORARI DI APERTURA E VISITA:
April 1 to October 31
Tuesday to Sunday 10-13 and 14-18.
November 1 to March 31
from Tuesday to Friday 10-13.30, Sat-Sun 10-13 and 14-18.
Closed on Mondays, 24,25,31 December, 1 January, 1 May and 15 August.
The Museum of the Forest consists of an ethnographic collection that enhances the testimonies of the life and work of the men in the forest area. Housed in a shed agriculture consists of a first section of the forest and its emotional value with artistic and literary references. The second section, organized around a video player, presents the territory and illustrates the traces of settlements and productive activities, thanks to a collection of tools, oral history and archival images. A network of trails facilities, which branches off to the hills of the Val di Merse, offers visitors a percorsoattraverso places that testify to the presence farming, processing of chestnut and spent all environmental professions and the seasons: woodcutter charcoal, coachmen. The Museum offers 5 courses ring for a total of 50 km, entitled The promenade Conte, charcoal burning, the Hermitage, the river and Castiglion that God alone knows. Often some of the trails are home to contemporary art projects. Another workshop, housed in the former school orgy near the Museum offers space and equipment for reflection and elaboration of the issues presented by the Museum and the paths: the study of the technique of transformation of wood into charcoal to creation of a herbarium materials collected under the microscope observation of the manifestation of the feelings aroused by a walk in the woods.
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