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Landscape museums and eco-museums

1. The eco-museums website
2. Italian eco-museums
3. Landscape museums

1. The eco-museums website

This Piedmont website groups all links and information about the eco-museums in Italy, in Europe and all over the world divided according to the type of territory they are located in: hills, mountains, internal waterways, sea, plains, urban settings.

2. Italian eco-museums

Landscape eco-museum (pilot project)
Province of Terni
The project falls within the European scheme called LEADER + 2000 - 2006; Asse 2, supporting the cooperation between rural territories; Local Development Plan of Trasimeno-Orvietano, headed by the Province of Terni.

Eco-museum of Argenta
The eco-museum of Argenta is a multi-faceted structure including several cultural and environmental properties as well as the local communities’ past and current values and identities.
The whole eco-museum system of Argenta is located within the Regional Park of the Po delta- Emilia Romagna.

IDRO – Eco-museum of the Ridracoli waters
Located inside the Parco Nazionale delle Foreste Casentinesi (National Park of the Casentinesi Forests) , Ridracoli, IDRO consists of a main seat and of several branches scattered on the territory.
European Prize “Museum of the Year 2006”.

Eco-museum of the Biellese area
This eco-museum aims at reconstructing the historical process through which the industrial textile district was created, which is nowadays a characteristic feature of the territory around Biella, as well as at presenting it to the public. It is made up of 15 eco-museum centres and several cultural institutions.

Eco-museum of the Freidano - Municipality of Settimo Torinese
The project of the Eco-museum of the Freidano, besides setting up an ethnographic museum, aims at enhancing the territory in its naturalistic, urban and architectural aspects. It involves a flat area of about 20 hectares included between the Po bank and the escarpment of the alluvial corridor and strongly marked by man’s work.

Eco-museum of Lake D’Orta
This eco-museum, as well as the Mottarone museum (Eco-museum Cusius), which were set up in 1997 by an association of local institutions, museums and sites scattered all around the lake and on the slopes of Mount Mottarone, exhibits items linked with several issues mainly focussing on material culture, art and nature.

3. Landscape museums

Thematic Landscape Museum
Castelnuovo Berardenga – Siena
The museum illustrates the relation between man and the surrounding territory, in particular the territory around Siena, strongly marked by man’s work, through the use of boards reporting information both in Italian and in English, photos, documents, archeological finds and screenings.

Verbania Landscape Museum
Verbania – Lake Maggiore
This museum, which has been located in the XVI/XVII century palace Viani-Dugnani in Pallanza since 1914, is engaged in enlarging the museum collections and in keeping an active relation with the surrounding territory through the promotion of the knowledge and conservation of the cultural and environmental heritage.
It houses several sections devoted to archeology , painting, sculpture, religious culture, art, culture and photography.

Centre for Environmental Education “Casa Monti”
This centre is an open structure that aims at raising in as many people as possible a deeper awareness about the issues of the environment and of sustainable development through different proposals. At the centre people can carry out research and obtain specific literature as well as receive advice and information about new methodologies of environmental teaching.

Landscape Museum of the Faentino Appennine
The museum is located in the Fortress of Riolo, an ancient stronghold in the Senio Valley.

Museum of the Appennine Historic Landscape – Abbey of Moscheta
The visit to the museum is organized is such a way that the peculiar characters of the Mugello Appennine Landscape are gradually discovered; a special section is devoted to cognitive/sensory experiences of nature in all of its aspects (geology, fauna and flora).

Landscape Museum –Foundation of the Siena Museums This museum, which is absolutely unique, is located in a building dating back to the end of the XIX century that has been used as a public abattoir until recently. It is built around an idea rather than around material objects. By learning the various meanings that the term “landscape” takes on through the itinerary, visitors are led to reflect on the transformations that the world has undergone over time and on the ways in which man reads or can read the world itself. The museum also includes an archeological section for which both Tuscany Archeological Superintendence and the Castelnovina Association for Archeological, Historical and Artistic Research- ACRASA are responsible. The Foundation of the Siena Museums groups 34 museums offering visitors an insight into the cultural identity of the Siena territory, which is documented both through the precious Etruscan and Roman archeological finds and through the invaluable works of art of the Middle Ages and of the Modern Age, as well as through the memories of popular traditions linked with the rural world and with peculiar naturalistic trails.

Museum of the Upper Lake of Garda Bresciano Park – Visitors’ centre
The museum of the Park brings together mountain and lake: actually here you can find a surprisingly rich documentation proving the naturalistic and landscape interest that characterizes the Garda territory and its hinterland. The most important element in the museum is a permanent exhibition running through some thematic rooms, where visitors can see VHS and DVD films and illustrated boards, where they can use computers and see satellites images, admire collections of natural items and work tools, reconstructions of archeological sites and of typical rural buildings.

Museum of the Biellese territory
The term “Museum of the Territory” implies devoting a special attention to local history, having an idea of cultural property not limited to its heyday, but extended to the so-called material assets and to ordinary objects , making a special effort in identifying, redescovering and retrieving the communities’ cultural identity. The aims of the Museum are: administering Biella’s artistic heritage, which is housed in the former municipal Museum, promoting exhibitions and cultural events with the purpose to enhance the local society and territory and putting them at the service of the territorial culture.