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Tobacco and Recovering Museum
Valbrenta
The museum is housed in the rooms of Palazzo Guarnieri, of the former municipality of Carpanè di San Nazario, the site of the old tobacco warehouse that collected and sorted all the tobacco produced in the valley when it was the main economic resource. Today, a rich collection of tools and artefacts used for growing and drying tobacco is on display here. The collection and documentation project was commissioned by the Comunità Montana del Brenta to document the economy and life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The museum, set up on two floors, houses not only the various tools used for tobacco cultivation and processing, but also the war relics collected by the salvagers, evidence of what the world wars left in the area, but above all evidence of a phenomenon that engaged young and old alike in the recovery of valuable materials, despite the danger of putting their lives at risk.
The visitThe museum displays a rich collection of tools and artefacts used for growing and drying tobacco: from the striso to the bigòl to the containers used by smugglers in their secret hiding places, allowing visitors an immersion into what life was like in the past, with its traditions and everyday objects. Cigars, pipes and snuff provide a comprehensive view of what was the world associated with this plant that conditioned the life, landscape and history of the entire valley.
On the upper floor, a large section is dedicated to the salvage trade and exhibits numerous civil and war artefacts: bombs, weapons, tins of food and clothes are displayed on the upper floor dedicated to the salvage trades of the world wars. Here, documents and reconstructions of the Great War accompany the visitor in understanding and remembering one of the most important military frontiers of our country, in relation to the trade legacy left to that generation that took the name of the salvagers.
The history CloseIn 2001 the area of the former Filanda Guarnieri and Magazzino Tabacchi was redeveloped by creating a cultural centre dedicated to the theme of tobacco cultivation. A few years later, a private collection of war relics was added to the collection of objects, housed on the ground floor of the building, lent by the Association of Friends of Marostica History Researchers, which recalls the activity of the salvage yard and contextualises it with the history of the wars in the Brenta Valley.
Free entrance during opening hours Unione Montana Valbrenta office
