Museo del Vino (Torgiano)

The Museo del vino in Torgiano (Umbria, Italy ) is a subject- specific private museum about the culture of wine.

History

The museum was founded in 1974 by the wine producer Giorgio Lungarotti and his wife Maria Grazia; today it is under the Lungarotti Foundation, which studies, cultural events and exhibitions organized with the aim to promote the wine and olive oil industry. With the help of archaeological, ethnographic and art collections, the museum provides information on the role of wine in the Western world, as a beverage, product and expression of culture.

The collections

The museum is divided according to subject. The first room leads by way of several archaeological finds from the Bronze Age to the late Roman period one came in the Mediterranean area in the origins of viticulture and how that from the Middle East area 2-8 presents the usual Umbrian wine-growing methods. Tools to explain the annual cycle and the cultivation techniques. An area dedicated to the places where they drank wine and how you drank it. Focus of the basement space in the museum is the winemaking, with old presses, a still, a Flaschenverkorkgerät and other objects from the past. Room 6 is concerned with the production of Vin Santo. The tour then resembling the crafts that had to do with the wine ( coopers, blacksmiths ) and shows, among other things, a collection of tools. Room 8 includes the regulation of the harvest seasons, customs and trade in wine; the local handicrafts and wine are devoted to Room 9 and 10 space 11 through 15 are devoted to the ceramic and contain a collection of exhibits from ceramic regions of Italy. The ceramic collection is divided by subject areas, namely: " wine than food " ( Maßgefässe, bottles), " wine as a medicine" ( jars, mortars, pharmacist vessels, recipe books) and finally "Wine and mythology " ( symbolic and scenic paintings, mostly on the subject of Dionysus / Bacchus, including the painted Mastro Giorgio Andreoli plate entitled " the Childhood of Bacchus "). Room 16 is a collection of waffle irons - waffles were usually served in Umbria on Vino Santo. Chamber 17 houses a collection of about 600 engravings and drawings depicting Dionysian scenes of Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Guttuso and Pablo Picasso. Room 18 shows bookplates. In room 19 there are real and reprinted old books about wine.

Credentials

Bibliography

  • Carola Fiocco, Gabriella Gherardi, Museo del vino di Torgiano. Ceramiche, Perugia, Electa Editori Associati Umbri, 1991
  • Maria Grazia Marchetti Lungarotti, Mario Torelli, Wine. Mithology and culture, Milano, Skira Editore, 2006
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