Dear visitors,
the museum is closed from 1st November 2024 to 14th April 2025.
We look forward to seeing you again in spring!
Research
Along with collecting, keeping and displaying/communicating, researching is one of the traditional core tasks of a museum. Researching also includes documentation and scientific investigation.
Current research projects
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Qualitative inventory of the headgear collection of the Folklore Museum
In 2020 the headgear collection was revised. The aim was to obtain a better overview of the collection through a qualitative and quantitative inventory and to update and supplement the information available on the individual objects.
In total there are over 190 hats of all kinds in the collection. Traditional hats and straw hats make up a large part of this, but special items such as baptismal caps or cylinders with the original leather cases are also part of the inventory.
Hat by hat was examined and a written and photographic documentation of each object was created. Furthermore, the dimensions, the materials and the state of preservation were recorded.
The hats were then packed in acid-free archival boxes for adequate and proper storage.
Past research projects
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"Typically Bruneck? Regional tableware from the 18th to the 20th century as a source of the everyday, trade and craft"
It examined the hand-manufactured ceramic tableware in and around Bruneck from the 18th to the 20th century.
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The Ragginer family
It includes the inventorying and the transcription of the literary estate of the farm doctors Ragginer from Lüsen.
Collection
Since its establishment in 1976, the Folklore Museum has been collecting ethnological objects with a Tyrolean connection in order to ensure a holistic presentation and fulfil its scientific mission of collecting, documenting, keeping and displaying.
When in 1982 the South Tyrolean Wine Museum was incorporate into the Folklore Museum, the Wine Museum’s inventory expanded the existing collection.
A further expansion was witnessed in 1991 with the establishment of the second branch, the Museum of Hunting and Fishing at Wolfsthurn Castle.
Since its establishment in 1976, the museum has collected over 65,000 items, some of which can be seen online: the online catalogue is constantly being expanded.
The museum possesses two photo collections, which can be seen online:
the Hugo Atzwanger collection,
the Erika Groth Schmachtenberger collection.
Inventory groups and emphasis
The collection
... contains objects from popular traditions and everyday culture, ergological objects, items related to occasions and customs;
... covers the era of preindustrial society from the 17th century up to the present day, with an emphasis on the period between 1850 and 1950;
... reflects interests and developments in ethnology and fulfils the tasks of an ethnological and open-air museum with objects from rural life and inventory groups such as popular religious practices, popular medicine, popular art, clothes and textiles, handicrafts and implements, furniture and furnishings, historical photographs, items from the archives, winegrowing, hunting and fishing, and musical instruments.
Library
The museum’s reference library contains publications on ethnological, cultural-historical and museum-educational topics, mostly in German. For more information please call (+39) 0474 552 087 or email info_at_volkskundemuseum.it.
