Founded in 1993 in a building initially intended as a slaughterhouse built with the stones of the ancient gate of the village of Scanno, the “Wool Museum” collects tools, furnishings and documents of the pastoral culture of Abruzzo between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is composed of three sections: the permanent exhibition Daily life in Scanno between 1845 and 1950 – tools for processing wool, cheese, parchment and goods produced by the communities of the Sagittario Valley – the seventeenth-century Church of San Giovanni Battista, which collects in an installation the statues of the Sacred tradition from the seventeenth century to today, and the Virtual museum of photography created by the Fototeca d’Abruzzo. The visitor who enters the Museum lives an immersive experience that takes him to the old rooms of pastoral culture, among the tools for the fields, breeding, cheese making, wool, bobbin lace, jewelry and amulets. Among the objects preserved in the Museum there is also a parchment suitcase, the scissors for shearing sheep, the measures for wheat, some rare scales, a rare chest from a wedding trousseau with auspicious images and some traditional costumes. Last but not least, some stuffed specimens of animals from the area are also kept, such as the griffon vulture, a wild boar cub and the skull of a mouflon.
INFORMATION: www.abruzzoturismo.it/it/destinazioni/museo-della-lana-scanno-aq
