Museums
Museums: a journey to the past
Forte Bramafam Museum
Fort Bramafam is located on a hill at the south-eastern margin of the Bardonecchia basin on the site of the ruins of the Chateau du Bramafam.
The fort, the most important fortification in the Cottian Alps at the end of the 19th century, was built between 1885 and 1894.
Since 1995, on the initiative of the Association for the Study of Military History and Architecture, a restoration project has been underway and a museum area of over 4000 square metres has been created, a museum on the history of the Royal Army. A tour itinerary has been set up inside the building, which tells the military history of Italy from 1890 to 1945 through a series of careful environmental reconstructions.
Ethnographic Museum and Mill of Rochemolles
The museum is situated in the centre of Rochemolles hamlet in the building that housed the school until the 1960s and now houses the Rochemolles Agricultural Association.
It was founded at the request of a family from the village who donated a number of objects, work tools and furnishings from everyday life in the past.
Over the years, the museum has been enriched by other donations such as the traditional Rochemolles dress, with its shawls and bonnets, the sacred furnishings of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels submerged with the construction of the dam, and some lace made using the tombolo technique, an ancient art of embroidery in this hamlet.
The watermill is located in Rochemolles on the orographic right bank of the stream of the same name.
It is equipped with a horizontal wheel and two millstones, one for broad beans and oats and the other for rye.
The mill remained in service until 1961.
Ethnographic Museum and Mill of Rochemolles
The museum is situated in the centre of Rochemolles hamlet in the building that housed the school until the 1960s and now houses the Rochemolles Agricultural Association.
It was founded at the request of a family from the village who donated a number of objects, work tools and furnishings from everyday life in the past.
Over the years, the museum has been enriched by other donations such as the traditional Rochemolles dress, with its shawls and bonnets, the sacred furnishings of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels submerged with the construction of the dam, and some lace made using the tombolo technique, an ancient art of embroidery in this hamlet.
The watermill is located in Rochemolles on the orographic right bank of the stream of the same name.
It is equipped with a horizontal wheel and two millstones, one for broad beans and oats and the other for rye.
The mill remained in service until 1961.
Museum of Alpine Religious Art
The Museum is situated inside the Madonna del Carmine Chapel along the main street of the hamlet of Melezet, not far from the church.
The chapel, built in 1647 in honour of the Virgin and St Joseph, was enlarged at successive times from 1657 to 1885. The current bell tower was rebuilt in 1669 to replace the previous one damaged by a serious fire in 1668.
The Museum houses an important collection of wooden statuary, works of goldsmithing, paintings, textiles and vestments dating from the 15th to the 19th century and coming from the churches and chapels of the Bardonecchia basin.
The more than 300 objects in the collection are displayed in rotation, depending on the theme of the exhibition that is presented to the community every year.
Bardonecchia Ethnographic Museum
It is situated in the historic centre of Bardonecchia near the Church of S. Ippolito.
The 19th-century building, formerly the Town Hall, houses on two floors a collection of testimonies of local material culture: furniture, furnishings and objects from home life, sacred art and religious antiquities, work objects and tools, photographs and a small collection of stones from the area.
Bardonecchia Ethnographic Museum
It is situated in the historic centre of Bardonecchia near the Church of S. Ippolito.
The 19th-century building, formerly the Town Hall, houses on two floors a collection of testimonies of local material culture: furniture, furnishings and objects from home life, sacred art and religious antiquities, work objects and tools, photographs and a small collection of stones from the area.