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Museum Of Agriculture And Rural World, San Martino in Rio

It offers a selection of the most significant relics of rural and handicraft culture of the mid-plain in the Reggio Emilia area, with some sections dedicated to field work, viticulture, spinning, weaving, mill, pork-butchering, milk and cheese "parmigiano/reggiano".

The museum is located in the halls of the Estense Fortress (building founded between the 12th and the 18th centuries, one of the most interesting in the region Emilia-Romagna) and is divided into four sections: territory, rural world and agricultural production, places of processing (e.g. hemp, shaving, millet, flour, meat, cheese) and rural house.
This is the result of a research developed by a group of experts who collected and preserved a large amount of material, oral and documentary proof of the local rural world, as it was until the beginning of this century, before the modern mechanization.
There are also a library and archives for photos, slides, videos, and so on.

Address: corso Umberto I, 25
Telephone: 0039/522/636726 - Fax: 0039/522/636720
Weekday Opening Times: Sat 9.00 a.m.-12.30 p.m. (upon phone agreement for visit on other days and different hours)
Sunday and Bank Holiday Opening Times: 10.00 a.m.-12.30 p.m. and 3.00- 6.00 p.m.
Free Entrance
Opening Periods: All year (closed in August)

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