If you want to know how folks lived fifty or a hundred years ago, you go to the Museo Abitare in Valle in Pinasca and ask Giuseppe Faure. A master woodworker himself, Giuseppe has assembled this vast and sprawling ethnographic museum pretty much all by himself, and he knows every corner of it.
The Museo Abitare in Valle is on the main road in Pinasca. It's open Monday thrrough Friday 9-12 and 3 to 5. Tel: 0121.800716
Giuseppe Faure explaining the use of old tools in the Museo Abitare in Valle
From Martha Bakerjian, About.com
Giuseppe Faure explaining the use of old tools in the sprawling Museo Abitare in Valle in Pinasca, Italy.
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