Museo Civico Alpino Arnaldo Tazzetti

The new exhibition opened in 2021 is divided into three sections.
Historical-artistic section: houses testimonies of the territory covering two thousand years of history: the two epigraphs from the Roman era found above Usseglio along the transit route with upper Savoy, the medieval high relief of Saint Bernard of Aosta, two 18th century paintings by Vittorio Amedeo Rapous the works of artists who worked in Val di Viù between the 19th and early 20th century (Giuseppe Sauli d'Igliano, Domenico Buratti, Alberto Cibrario, Giovanni Piumati, Alberto Neuschuler) and a room dedicated to the painter Cesare Ferro Milone of Usseglio origins.
Nature section: houses a collection of stuffed alpine animals, distributed in three rooms dedicated to the natural environments of the peaks, the forest and the valley floor, with some exotic specimens from the mountains of Canada and Siberia. In addition, a collection of minerals from the valley is on display.
Local traditions section: the exhibition recounts the life up to the middle of the last century of the native people of Usseglio, a typical high-altitude village in the Alps. The tale is ideally led by Eufrosina, a native of Usseglio (1912-1986), through the objects and photographs of daily life: the domestic environment, the tools used in haymaking and milk processing, school, festive moments and traditional costumes, the beginning of mountaineering, religiousness. This section also houses the documentation of two important activities for the local economy, that of the iron and cobalt mines, active until the end of the 19th century, and that of the hydroelectric power stations built in the 1930s, which limited the exodus of people to the valley in search of work.
The route of the visit proposes in-depth examinations through a number of videos, including two documentaries shot in Usseglio by Ermanno Olmi in the 1950s.