
The Museum of Farming Civilisation in Imperial Friuli is a private property which collects objects that narrate and pass on the history of the farming civilisation of western Friuli. More precisely, in the counties of Gorizia and Gradisca. The historical period that is represented here begins around 1500 and closes in 1918: the time when those lands were subject to the House of Austria.
It is hosted in the interior of an ancient residence on the lower Friulian plain, essentially rural medieval buildings with a closed court, characterised by different buildings built in different epochs. There are various the sections dedicated to manual activities such as those of the bricklayer, the basket weaver, the shoemaker and the milkman. The workshop of a carpenter and a fascinating workshop of the master blacksmith have been faithfully reproduced, in different environments.
On the second floor, other exhibition sections narrate popular religiosity, and of aspects tied to weaving and the raising of silkworms. A particular section is concerned with travel trunks.
A significant peculiarity is the section dedicated to women's work. The museum hosts a permanent exhibition of the works of the Squarcialupi, De Stefani, Stagni and Tamburlini families: fascinating embroidery, women's underwear of past times, bodices, busts and nightgowns.