Museo del Vino (Torgiano)

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Wine press in the Museo del Vino

The Museo del Vino in Torgiano ( Umbria , Italy) is a themed 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 subordinate to the Lungarotti Foundation, which organizes studies, cultural events and exhibitions with the aim of promoting the wine and olive oil industry. With the help of the archaeological, ethnographic and art collections, the museum provides information about the role of wine in the western world, as a drink, product and expression of culture.

The collections

The museum is divided into subject areas. The first room introduces the origins of viticulture and how it came from the Middle East to the Mediterranean using several archaeological finds from the Bronze Age to the late Roman period. Rooms 2 to 8 present the viticulture methods commonly used in Umbria. Tools explain the annual cycle and the cultivation techniques. One section is dedicated to the places where you drank wine and how to drink the wine.

Wine-making equipment is shown in the basement: old presses , stills, bottle corkers and other historical equipment. Room 6 deals with the production of Vin Santo . The tour then reminds of the crafts that had to do with viticulture (cooper, blacksmith) and shows, among other things, a collection of tools. Room 8 contains the regulation of harvest times, customs and trade in wine; Rooms 9 and 10 are dedicated to local handicrafts and wine. Rooms 11 to 15 are dedicated to ceramics and contain a collection of exhibits from ceramic regions in Italy. The ceramic collection is also divided into subject areas, namely: "Wine as food" (measuring vessels, bottles), "Wine as medicine" (jugs, mortars, apothecary vessels, recipe books) and finally "Wine and mythology" (symbolic and scenic paintings , mostly on the subject of Dionysus / Bacchus , including the plate painted by Mastro Giorgio Andreoli with the title “The Childhood of Bacchus”). Room 16 is a collection of waffle irons - waffles were usually served with Vin Santo in Umbria. Room 17 houses a collection of around 600 engravings and drawings with representations of Dionysian scenes by Andrea Mantegna , Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Renato Guttuso and Pablo Picasso . Room 18 shows bookplates .

In room 19 there is a collection of historical books and reprints on the subject of wine.

literature

  • Carola Fiocco, Gabriella Gherardi: Museo del vino di Torgiano. Ceramiche. Electa Editori Umbri Associati, Perugia 1991.
  • Maria Grazia Marchetti Lungarotti, Mario Torelli : Vino: tra mito e cultura. Skira, Milan 2006, ISBN 978-8884918864

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Istituto per l'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, ad vocem
  2. ↑ Fondazione Lungarotti, Das Wein Museum , Perugia, 1995, pp. 104-105
  3. ↑ Article in Columbia Daily Tribune
  4. ^ Article in New York Times on 12/28/2010
  5. ↑ Alessandra Uncini and Mario Torelli , Museo del vino di Torgiano. Materiali archeologici , Perugia, Electa Editori Umbri Associati, 1991
  6. ^ Giovanni Ranieri Fascetti, I ferri da cialda: documenti del costume e del gusto fra rinascimento dei miti e eucarestia profana , Gruppo culturale Roselli, Pisa, 1997
  7. ↑ Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli, Museo del vino di Torgiano. Incisioni , Perugia, Electa Editori Umbri Associati, 1994

Coordinates: 43 ° 1 '32.8 "  N , 12 ° 26' 0.7"  E