Ethnographic Museum
Ecomuseo della Cultura della Lavorazione della Canapa di Carmagnola
Carmagnola (TO)
AM Piedmont and Aosta Valley
Under the last remaining 'senté', the memory and tradition of hemp processing, once skilfully practised by the skilled rope-makers of San Bernardo, is preserved.
Through a rich collection of tools, machinery and archive documents, the Eco-museum preserves and enhances the historical memory of hemp processing, a tradition attested in the Carmagnola area since the 1235. Opened in 1998, the Ecomuseum retraces the stages of the production chain - from fibre to rope manufacture - that in the past made Carmagnola famous as the Hemp empire.
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