La Batajera: il Museo Etnografico e del Mulo - Prunetto
Il borgo di Prunetto è famoso soprattutto per il complesso monumentale formato dal Castello Scarampi del Carretto di Pruney e dal Santuario della Madonna del Carmine posti sulla sommità della collina prospicente il paese.
Parte di questo complesso è anche l'edificio denominato La Batajera.
Monumento nazionale, questo edificio è un portico in arenaria a pianta quadrata con due aperture ad arco.
Originariamente rappresentava la porta di accesso al castello.
Dal 2000 è la sede del Museo Etnografico La Batajera.
Nelle sue sale al piano inferiore è ospitato il Museo Etnografico incentrato sulla viticoltura, la cerealicoltura e l'allevamento del bestiame. Non mancano, ovviamente, utensili della vita quotidiana contadina, ma anche allestimenti riguardanti le botteghe dei ciabattini, dei falegnami e degli arrotini: lavori tipici del mondo agricolo.
Al piano superiore, invece, trova posto un insolito Museo del Mulo.
Unico in Italia, conserva oggetti in uso agli Alpini che sfruttavano gli asini a scopi militari.
In mostra ci sono cappe di protezione, racchette da neve, selle e basti per il trasporto di armi e materiali, attrezzi per la tosatura, la ferratura, il foraggiamento e l’abbeveramento.
Ethnographic Museum and Mule Museum La Batajera in Prunetto
The village of Prunetto is famous above all for the monumental complex formed by the Scarampi del Carretto Castle of Pruney and the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine located on the top of the hill overlooking the town.
Part of this complex is also the building called La Batajera .
National monument, this building is a square-plan sandstone porch with two arched openings.
Originally it represented the gateway to the castle.
Since 2020 it has been the headquarters of the La Batajera Ethnographic Museum .
In its rooms on the lower floor there is the Ethnographic Museum focused on viticulture, cereal growing and cattle breeding. Obviously, there is no shortage of tools from the daily peasant life, but also arrangements for the workshops of cobblers, carpenters and knife sharpeners: typical works of the agricultural world.
On the upper floor, however, there is an unusual Mule Museum .
Unique in Italy, it preserves objects in use by the Alpini who exploited donkeys for military purposes.
On display there are protective hoods, snowshoes, saddles and bases for the transport of weapons and materials, tools for shearing, shoeing, foraging and watering.
The village of Prunetto is famous above all for the monumental complex formed by the Scarampi del Carretto Castle of Pruney and the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine located on the top of the hill overlooking the town.
Part of this complex is also the building called La Batajera .
National monument, this building is a square-plan sandstone porch with two arched openings.
Originally it represented the gateway to the castle.
Since 2020 it has been the headquarters of the La Batajera Ethnographic Museum .
In its rooms on the lower floor there is the Ethnographic Museum focused on viticulture, cereal growing and cattle breeding. Obviously, there is no shortage of tools from the daily peasant life, but also arrangements for the workshops of cobblers, carpenters and knife sharpeners: typical works of the agricultural world.
On the upper floor, however, there is an unusual Mule Museum .
Unique in Italy, it preserves objects in use by the Alpini who exploited donkeys for military purposes.
On display there are protective hoods, snowshoes, saddles and bases for the transport of weapons and materials, tools for shearing, shoeing, foraging and watering.
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