Museo Ladin de Fascia - Ladin Museum in Fassa - Trentino

Discover the Ladin history and culture of the Val di Fassa at the Museo Ladin de Fascia, a museum with different branches in multiple localities of the valley

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The entrance of 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 organised into themes and features a multimedia tour with information panels and films in different languages - here the “Sowing and Ploughing” section with ancient tools.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
The exhibition also deals with the evolution of the people’s religious life over the centuries.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
Masks and traditional costumes are displayed in the area dedicated to carnival.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
The “Stua”, as the “Stube” is called, was an important and typical room of every Fassan farmhouse: it was equipped with a stove and used as a living room and gathering spot.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)
One section is devoted to the tragic war of more than a century ago.
Foto: © Archivio Fotografico dell’Istituto Culturale Ladino “majon di fascegn” – Sèn Jan, Vich/San Giovanni di Fassa (TN)

The Museo Ladin de Fascia in San Giovanni in the Val di Fassa (Sèn Jan di Fassa in Ladin), was inaugurated in 2001. It represents the seat of the project "Museo sul territorio" (territorial museum), which counts multiple branches in different localities of the valley. In the museum in San Giovanni you can admire some very special ethnic collections on the Ladin culture of the Val di Fassa. The multimedia tour is composed of 17 information panels and 74 films in different languages and retraces the history of the valley from prehistoric times to nowadays.

The other branches of this museum focus on interesting historical facts and on the peculiarities of Ladin culture. The exhibitions were arranged in symbolic places reflecting the historic and cultural heritage of these people, such as the "Sia", that is the Venetian sawmill in the village of Penia, the "Molin de Pèzol", the mill in Pera or the Casino di Bersaglio in Campitello di Fassa. The travelling exhibition 1914-1918 "la Gran Vera" the First World War: Galicia, Dolomites is devoted to the Ladin population living in the border area during WW1.