Museo Laboratorio del Mortigliengo (Mezzana Mortigliengo)

Museums

Museo Laboratorio del Mortigliengo (Mezzana Mortigliengo)

Category: Eco-museums

If you have chosen to visit the Museo Laboratorio di Mortigliengo (Museum-Workshop of Mortigliengo), you will be astonished as you see the exact replica of a farmhouse of the Biella region. It has machines to extract oil from walnuts, looms to weave and carpenter´s benches to do woodwork. You will be even more astonished by the presence of a cannon in the attic... What can its purpose be? If you ask the museum attendants, they will give you a simple and, after all, obvious answer: the cannon was used to shoot at the clouds to ward off hail. This is an idea that is worth a visit to Mortigliengo, and that might inspire a writer to set a short novel in this attic.

Information

Comune di Mezzana Mortigliengo
Tel. +39.0150.742500
E-mail: mezzana@ptb.provincia.biella.it
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