Museo di Val Verzasca
Associazione Museo di Val Verzasca
Sonogno, Switzerland
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Founded in 1979, Museo di Val Verzasca is a non-profit association based in Sonogno, Switzerland working on heritage, arts & culture, education.
The Museo di Val Verzasca is a non-profit association museum in Sonogno, Ticino, Switzerland. It preserves about 2,000 objects from homes, stables and attics of the Verzasca valley, and runs exhibitions, research, publications, guided visits and cultural mediation for locals, schools, families and visitors. Its main site comprises the historic Casa Genardini and a newer building opened in 2017, with further thematic displays at the Mulino di Frasco and the Piccolo Museo del fieno selvatico in Odro. The museum was established in 1979 and is run with the help of volunteers.
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Laboratorio degli antichi gesti
Heritage · Switzerland
Permanent exhibition in a new museum building in Sonogno showing the evolution of the landscape and daily life in the Verzasca valley up to around the 1940s.
Casa Genardini
Heritage · Switzerland
Historic house in Sonogno presenting a Verzasca household, its family life and the migration of chimney sweep children.
Infanzia spensierata? Sorglose Kindheit?
Children & Youth · Switzerland
Permanent exhibition on chimney sweep children from the Verzasca valley and the child rights and child labour issues of today.
Itinerari etnografici
Heritage · Switzerland
Ethnographic walking routes through the Verzasca valley linking hidden artefacts and local history, including the Sentiero delle leggende.
TiM-Tandem im Museum
Arts & Culture · Switzerland
Participation in a national programme in which tandems of guests and TaM guides visit museums and create stories about objects on display.
Home Museum
Education · Switzerland
Activities for families and schools to explore museum collections at home or in class.
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Helvetas, Ballenberg, Amnesty International, OTR, Centro di Dialettologia e di Etnografia, Raiffeisen, Comune Verzasca
