The Provincial Ethnographic Museum of Seravella is located in one of the most suggesting setting at the foot of the Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park, recognized from UNESCO World Heritage, and is considered at regional level as a base structure in the field of etnographic museums, for the many activities of reserarch and catalog in the territory of Belluno, as well as for the enhancement initiatives of the ethnographic heritage of the province.
The Museum is the outcome of a long path that started in 1979 from an idea by Daniela Perco, anthropologist initially welcomed and supported by Italia Nostra. Thanks to a funding of the Veneto Region, the “Comunità Montana Feltrina” bought in 1994, and later restored, Villa Azzoni Avogadro, in Seravella, Cesiomaggiore.
Already at the beginning the collaboration with the “Gruppo Folkloristico di Cesiomaggiore” had been essential, whose objects collection is today fundamental for the setting of the museum.
The permament collection testify customs and popular traditions of the entire alpine area, with sections dedicated to the life in the mountain pastures, seasonal and transoceanic emigration, of the clothing, the rural home, the oral heritage of legends, songs, fairy tales.
In the garden from May the beautiful flowering of ancient roses can be admired.
The Dolomiti Ethnographic Museum is now open at the following times:
- from tuesday to friday: 9,00-13,00
- saturday and sunday: 15,00-18,30
- monday closed
