Permanent Display of Agricultural Civilization

Address and contacts

Piazzale Marconi - 42017 Novellara
0039 0522 651378 - Pro Loco Novellara
proloco.novellara@gmail.com

Opening times

First Sunday of each month
10.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. / 3.00 - 6.30 p.m.

Prices

Free entrance

History

The Permanent Display for Agricultural Civilization was born in the first half of the seventies of the XX century within the local Middle School. In the context of a research by the students on the work of their grandparents, many objects and tools used in the countryside were collected, being the grandparents for the most part farmers. Taking into account that this material was only a small part of what was still kept, but no longer used, there was the proposal to make an organic collection, that saw the children busy - with the assistance of teachers, janitors and parents - wandering around the country houses, always meeting the generous availability of the families they visited.

The relaunch of the activity of the Display is proposed within the same logic: favouring the privileged relationship with schools and young people, enhancing voluntary work and local products.

This new life of the exhibition is actually made possible thanks to the commitment, which lasted for 8 years, of many volunteers and thanks to the sensitivity of hundreds of citizens who have enriched the exhibition path with thousands of donations. The Permanent Display is the result of the commitment of an entire community which thus intended to preserve the material documentation of its roots in order to propose them to new generations and new citizens.

There is a close relationship between the local food and wine products (Lambrusco, Parmigiano Reggiano, cured meats, watermelons, honey, etc.) and ancient and widespread knowledge, skills and sensitivity that the exhibition intends to enhance.

The Display is located in the suggestive environment of the XV-century cellar of the Gonzaga Fortress, a few steps from the Gonzaga Museum, the Tagliavini Theatre and the Municipal Vinegar cellar. This inclusion contributes, already now and even more in the future, to making the Fortress a museum and cultural container of absolute importance.