Museo Ladin de Fascia - Ladin Museum in Fassa - Trentino

Discover the Ladin history and culture of the Val di Fassa valley at the Museo Ladin de Fascia: in addition to the headquarters, there are several museum branches in the valley

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The entrance to the Museo Ladin de Fascia, the Ladin Museum in San Giovanni di Fassa.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
The exhibition is divided into themes and offers a multimedia tour with information panels and films in different languages - here the “Sowing and Ploughing” section with its old tools.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
The religious life of the people over the centuries is also a theme of the exhibition.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
Another area is dedicated to carnival: Masks and traditional costumes are on display here.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
The “Stua”, as the parlour is called, was present in every farmhouse: It was a meeting place, a living room and, thanks to the stove, a warm place in winter.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
The museum also deals with difficult times such as the mountain war that raged here more than a century ago.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)

In San Giovanni in the Val di Fassa valley - or Sèn Jan di Fassa, as the village is called in Ladin - you can find the Museo Ladin de Fascia, which was inaugurated in 2001. It is the headquarters of the project "Territorial Museum", which is made up of various sections in different places in the valley. In the exhibition at the headquarters you can admire some very special ethnic collections that tell about the Ladin culture in the Fassa Valley. The museum informs about the history of the place from prehistoric times until today in a multimedia tour with 17 information panels and 74 films in different languages.

Besides the Ladin Museum, the other branches also offer interesting facts about history and Ladin culture. Indeed, it is no coincidence that places of great historical and cultural importance were chosen for this purpose: These include the "Sia", the Venetian saw in the little village of Penia, as well as the "Molin de Pèzol", the mill in Pera, or the Casino di Bersaglio in Campitello di Fassa. In addition, the exhibition 1914-1918 "la Gran Vera" the First World War: Galicia, Dolomites is part of it, dedicated to the life of the Ladin population in this border area during the so-called mountain war.