The Home Museum is in the historical centre of the town and is inside an ancient building where the rooms faithfully recreate an Amiata mountain home from the end of the nineteenth century. On the entry floor, we find the “heart of the home”, comprising the kitchen and the bedroom, with authentic furniture and furnishings used every day. The floor below contains the stalls, the storeroom and an old animal-driven mill, and displays work tools and agricultural equipment that bear witness to the work in the fields and woods. Next to the museum, there is a cultural centre with an educational laboratory that provides the opportunity to learn more about topics linked to the chestnut cycle and its growth, not just locally. In addition, there are two nature paths: “Via della Castagna” and “Via delle Fonti”. The library, archive and photo-library can all be consulted at the Home Museum’s educational laboratory.
The Home Museum is located in the historical centre of Monticello Amiata, and is housed inside a historical municipal building; the rooms faithfully recreated an Amiata mountain home from the end of the nineteenth century.
On the entry floor, we find the “heart” of the home, comprising the kitchen and the bedroom, with authentic furniture and furnishings used every day.
The floor below contains the stalls, the storeroom and an old animal-driven mill, and displays work tools and agricultural equipment that bear witness to the work in the fields and woods.
Man's adventures are partly reconstructed in mock-up images of history, residue of cultures that disappear alongside the relevant generations.
Written, oral and visual documents recover fragments of ideas of different civilisations that tell us about days that were marked by weather cycles and holy rituals, work and ordinary existence.
Next to the museum, there is an educational laboratory that provides the opportunity to learn more about topics linked to the chestnut and oil cycles and their growth, not just locally.