Agriculture and Rural World Museum

Address and contacts

Corso Umberto I, 22 - 42018 San Martino in Rio
0039 0522 636726 - Office
0039 0522 636740 - Museum
museo@comune.sanmartinoinrio.re.it
Agriculture and Rural World Museum

The Museum is located on the ground floor of the Estense Fortress.

Opening times

August
Monday - Friday (upon reservation only)
9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Saturday
9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (free entrance)

Estense Fortress and Museum closed Sundays and August 15.

From September to July
Monday - Friday (upon reservation only)
9.00 a.m. - 12.00

Saturday (free entrance)
9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Sunday and holidays
9.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. and 3.00 - 6.30 p.m. (3.30 - 7.00 p.m., daylight saving time):
entrance with fee and possibility of guided tour of the Estense Fortress.

Prices

Museum entrance
Full ticket: Euros 2.00.
Reduced ticket: Euros 1.00 (children aged 12-18, university students, people over 65 and groups exceeding 10 people).
Free ticket: children under 12, residents, disabled and their helpers, donors of material to the Museum, Icom members).

Guided tours of the Museum (upon reservation only)
Full ticket: Euros 4.00.
Reduced ticket: Euros 2.50 (children aged 12-18, university students, people over 65 and groups exceeding 10 people).
Free ticket: children under 12, schools, disabled and their helpers.

Guided tours of the Fortress + entrance in the Museum
Sunday and holidays: start at 10.00, 11.15 a.m., 4.00 and 5.30 p.m.
Full ticket: Euros 5.00.
Reduced ticket: Euros 3.00 (children aged 12-18, university students, people over 65 and groups exceeding 10 people).
Free entrance: children under 12, disabled and their helpers.

How to get there

By car
When coming from Reggio Emilia (15 km), take National Road SS468 travelling to Correggio. At Fazzano, take the Provincial Road (SP) and follow road signs to San Martino in Rio.
From the Carpi exit of the A22 motorway (8 km), follow the road signs to San Martino in Rio.

By bus
From Reggio Emilia, Piazzale Europa: public transport service, bus No. 41.

Historical notes

The museum, built in 1968 and restored in 1994, offers a wide selection of the most significant relics of rural and handicraft culture of the mid-plain in the Reggio Emilia area. There are sections dedicated to: field work, hemp cultivation, viticulture, breeding, spinning, weaving, cordage, whip and broom manufacture, shaving production, mill, cheese factories, pork-butchering, rural house.
The museum is located in the halls of the Estense Fortress (building founded between the XII and the XVIII centuries, one of the most interesting in the region Emilia-Romagna) and is divided into four sections: territory, rural world and agricultural production, places of processing (e.g. hemp, shaving, millet, flour, meat, cheese) and rural house. This is the result of a research developed by a group of experts who collected and preserved a large amount of material, oral and documentary proof of the local rural world, as it was until the beginning of this century, before the modern mechanization. There are also a library and archives for photos, slides, videos, and so on.