Museo Etnografico della Civiltà Contadina di Orsara Bormida

via Repubblica Argentina, 8 - 15010 Orsara Bormida (AL)
Palazzo Comunale
Tel. +39 (0144) 367.021
Tel. +39 348 9126393
Fax: +39 (0144) 360.20
E-mail: amicidelmuseo@libero.it
https://www.ursaria.it/

The Orsara Bormida Museum in the local town hall started up in 1996 thanks to a group of volunteers who wanted to display a number of ancient items and relics donated by people from the area.
The museum is run by the Associazione Ursaria and exhibits in the former elementary school a wide range of documents and records from the last century detailing the participation of local people in times of war, from the Renaissance right up to the World Wars of the 20th century; amongst the most important items on display is the diary of Bernardo Zambado along with documents detailing emigration to Argentina in the late 1800s and early 1900s which involved large numbers of local people.
There is also a section devoted to peasant clothing and dresses along with personal and household items. Finally, there is a display of farm equipment and tools, all of which were used in the fields, the vineyards, the stables and the cellars.