Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Ethnography and anthropology museums

The Town Hall - Palazzo Rasini, an historic palace dating back to the last quarter of the XVI century, houses and exhibits the miniature museum of the rural and artisanal life in Brianza, at a scale of 1:10 made by Mr Renzo Carrera and Mr Carlo Villa. The scale model, of about six sq.mt, made after photographic researches and technical drawings and thanks to the oral source of the elderly people, represents a typical farmhouse of Brianza; it's composed of a kitchen, bedrooms, toilet, dunghill, cattle shed/ with barn, animals and the woodshed and also all furniture and the farmer's tools and implements. The exhibition includes also miniature craft tools necessary to the bricklayer, the wood worker, the smith, the barber, the plumber, the shoe repairer and different machines to do the sauce, to spin wool, to roast the chestnuts and the fish, to make the rope. Lastly some industrial machines, piano organs and transport carts, all working and realized with the same material as the original. The represented period ranges from 1870 to 1970.