Museo della Scuola e Laboratorio di Calzoleria (Tagusa)

The School Museum and Cobbler’s Workshop in Tagusens preserves the history of the hamlet’s former single-room school and local craft work. The schoolhouse, built in 1933, taught the village’s children until 1993.

Why it matters

The museum documents rural education and everyday work in a small mountain community. For much of its history, the school brought children of different ages together in one classroom, while the cobbler’s workshop records a trade that served the hamlet.

What to notice

The classroom retains desks, teaching materials and other school objects. The upper floor includes a parlour furnished in the style of around 1700 and a cobbler’s workshop with tools and machines from the 1950s. In the 1950s, enrolment reached 46 pupils.

Context and history

Before the schoolhouse was built, lessons took place in the parsonage and local farm parlours. The school opened in its dedicated building in 1933 and closed in 1993. The museum opened in 2005; a 2019 refit added the historic parlour and workshop to the preserved classroom.