The Museum is in Codissago, Longarone, in the province of Belluno. This is a small village on the left bank of the Piave, inhabited until a few years after the First World War by the builders and conductors of the great rafts that descended the river Piave to feed Venice.
It was made by the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ancient rafters, who wanted not to forget the great work carried out for centuries by their ancestors on the river, and who, unique in Italy have not forgotten the ancient technique used to bind the trunks and form large rafts.
Human events concern a period that goes from the time of the Romans 200 A.D. (but in all probability this human activity was lost in the time) until the advent of industrial society, which in a short time swept away ways of life that had been preserved for centuries without substantial changes.
The Museum intends to illustrate all the aspects concerning the cutting, transport and transfer of large quantities of wood, made to flow, first freely and then bound in rafts, from the valleys of the province of Belluno to the Venetian plain and especially to Venice, along what was the main road for transport, the river Piave.
