10 Specialty Museums in Province of Matera That You Shouldn't Miss

A restored XVI century building with court located in via San Giovanni Vecchio 60 (Sasso Barisano) is the home of the 500 m2 large Museo Laboratorio della Civiltà Contadina (Museum-Workshop of the Peasant Culture). The exhibition rooms are dedicated to the ancient trades related to the work in the fields but also to all the other handicraft activities carried on in the ancient quarters of Matera: sieve-maker, tanner, shepherd, basket-maker, cavamonti, shoe-shiner, barber, cabinet-maker, mastro d'ascia, blacksmith, tailor, conciapiatti, potter, knife-grinder, saddler, coppersmith, cobbler, peasant, scalpellino. Also, various every-day tools are exposed: farm tools, equipment for storage and processing of wheat, weaving equipment. Other rooms are dedicated to daily-life places - such as the public wine cellar and the typical house - and themes related to the South-Italy history such as brigandage, childhood condition and water-harvesting. The Museo-Laboratorio aims to be a dynamic structure among the tourism products of Matera and a reference for the development of the culture of the past through exhibition and educational activities.

Our services: -Guided visits to the museum; -Olive oil tasting and lessons on the oil organoleptic properties; -Olive oil tasting combined with local food; -Visits and didactic laboratories; -Extra-virgin olive oil sale. *Reservation required*

Il Museo Janora offre alcuni particolari servizi sia per le comitive che vengono a visitare il Museo sia per coloro che desiderano organizzare convegni e congressi. Situati all’interno del ex convento francescano (sede del museo), esistono degli spazi attrezzati : sala convegni, ristorante, vineria, aule formative e spazi all’aperto in cui è possibile usufruire di particolari servizi messi a disposizione dei visitatori. I servizi sono: servizio ristoro, vineria e aquisto di prodotti tipici locali, internet point, servizi multimediali, Book shop, spazi di attesa e di sosta, laboratori didattici. Servizio ristoro Il ristorante è elegante ed accogliente, è caratterizzato da due sale (una grande e una piccola), e da una vineria con una fornita cantina. La gradevolezza degli ambienti, il delizioso panorama che si scorge dalle finestre unitamente ad un’accoglienza che rimanda alla migliore tradizione monastica, ne fanno la location ideale per la vostra sosta di ristoro dopo la visita

Matera Olive Oil Museum(MOOM). Reconstructed in an ancient underground oil mill in Sassi of Matera. RESERVATION IS NEEDED! PLEASE CALL US TO ASK A VISIT!

The museum "Racconti in Pietra",which translated means "Tales of Stones",proposes a time travel suitable for children, telling a piece of history,the earliest one,of the territory sorrounding Matera in a fresh and new way.Get ready to meet dinosaurs,the "Giuliana" whale and footprints of creatures from earlier times. Come to visit us in Vico San Leonardo 9,in the heart of the "Sassi di Matera".

Matera Sassi Storica Casa Grotta - di vico Solitario: Typically Furnished Cave Dwelling To see what a real peasant dwelling was like before the “Sassi” of Matera were abandoned, visit a typical cave dwelling with furniture and tools of the time in the “Sasso Caveoso”. The description of the Cave Dwelling in English language is available inside. Open all year round.

The MUSMA, internationally recognized for its unique cave exhibition spaces, is the most important museum entirely dedicated to sculpture in Italy. MUSMA occupies the spaces of the 17th Century Palazzo Pomarici and was inaugurated on October 14th, 2006. In ancient caves carved-out of limestone over time, there are works of art which tell the story of Italian and international sculpture from the late 1800s to today and seem to have found their “natural home”. The fullness and emptiness of sculpture appear extraordinarily complementary to the positive and negative spaces of the Sassi architecture. From the underground rooms, we pass into the noble palace, onto the first floor where the works are arranged in chronological order and are framed by elegant vaults and cornices.

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