Museo della Casa Contadina (Corciano)

Inside Corciano's walls, the Museo della Casa Contadina recreates a traditional farmhouse in a town-centre house. Founded in 1976 by local citizens and the Pro Loco, it preserves tools and furnishings that document rural life before the area's industrial development.

Why it matters

The museum grew from local research and collecting, with later donations enriching the collection. Its rooms present the material culture of farming, crafts and domestic life in Corciano's countryside, placing rural social history alongside the town's churches and civic buildings.

What to notice

The house is arranged as a series of domestic and working spaces. The ground floor recreates a stable and cellar, with barrels, flasks and a wooden loom accompanied by spinning and weaving tools. The granary represents the storage of the year's grain. The kitchen is centred on the hearth and includes a versatoio for liquids, an ascina used for laundry and the madia, a wooden table for kneading bread. The bedroom contains an iron bed with a traditional sack-of-leaves mattress, a prete bed warmer, a child's girello, a wash basin and embroidered linens. Period photographs and sacred images evoke the social and religious setting of a nineteenth-century peasant household.

Context and history

Local citizens and the Pro Loco created the museum in 1976, collecting objects and documenting Corciano's agricultural past as industrial development changed the countryside. The collection is housed in a typical home within the historic centre, whose medieval structure and split levels are part of the setting for the rooms and objects.