1939/42 Massimo Castellazzi (1901/77),
Pietro Morresi (1898/1982) e Annibale Vitellozzi (1902/90)
Built in
the same period of the other three buildings arranged symmetrically around the
square
National
Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions
The museum
was founded from the Italian Ethnography Exhibition, held in Rome in
1911 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Unification of Italy
The
exhibition was coordinated by the ethnologist LAMBERTO LORIA, who in 1906 had
founded the Ethnographic Museum in Florence
He
collected over 30,000 objects for the exhibition in 1911, with the help of
assistants, teachers and local scholars, who were active in the various
regions. The collections of objects were locked in crates, were deposited
during those years in the basements of various museums and finally ended up at Villa d'Este in Tivoli
Only April
20, 1956 the museum was inaugurated in this building
The walls
of the main hall are decorated with frescoes painted by different artists (Varagnolo, Colao, Bertoletti, Cavalli, Cascella, Guberti, Amato, Barillà and
others), representing scenes of family life, seafaring and farming, festivals,
games and ceremonies
It is the
only state museum in Italy with specific expertise in the field of ANTHROPOLOGY
It contains
over 100,000 documents related to the world of popular culture: a unique
collection, unrepeatable today
Most
objects date back to the period between the late 1800s and early 1900s, but
some wooden artifacts date back to the eighteenth or the first half of the
nineteenth century
ELEVEN ROOMS
each dedicated to a particular aspect of popular culture:
Transport
systems
Peasant
labor
Work of
shepherds
Hunting and
fishing communities
Signs of
trades
Housing and
domestic space
Rituals and
family life
Rituals and
feasts
Musical
Instruments
Shows and
games on the road
Puppetry
Popular
clothing and jewelry
In
addition, historical photographic archive and photo library for
the material collected before and after 1956, tape library for sound
documents, archive of visual anthropology with visual and multimedia
material, office inventory, library with about 12,000 volumes, restoration
workshop, photographic laboratory and audiovisual laboratory
