Spend a day in the Stura Valley ‘Spend a day in the Stura Valley’ is an educational tourism project of the Eco-museum of Shepherding aimed at schools of all levels. The didactic offer allows to show the many peculiarities and characteristic features of the Stura Valley offering a large number of educational opportunities and knowledge...
Cultural Maps The concept of cultural map or community map was born in England in the 1980s (Parish Map) on the basis of some reflections that are still very relevant. The maps are created through participatory paths and enhancement ‘from below’, where the main characters are the inhabitants themselves who choose the objects, practices, places...
Research One of the avant-garde aspects of the Eco-museum is its link with research. In order to respect its nature as an evolving and never static institution, it continues to be powered by the most recent studies carried out in the Alpine region on both pastoralism and local culture. The Eco-museum has become a reference...
Transhumance Prominent works by Daniele Balangero and Andrea Rinaudo, photographs by Federico Aimar and poetic work by Annika Pettini 3 July 2021 – 31 December 2021 The travelling exhibition TransHUMANce is the result of the multidisciplinary artist residency of the homonymous project, in which Andrea Rinaudo, Daniele Balangero, Federico Aimar and Annika Pettini participated. In...
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[Over]crossing the border Photos of migratory, transhumance and smuggling routes between the Stura Valley and France Photographs by LUCA PRESTIA 18 July 2020 – 31 December 2020 The shots investigate the history and identity of the Stura Valley, a borderland that has always been a place of transit and exchange. Talking about borders in the...
[Over]crossing the border The project Over crossing the border originates from the exhibition [OVER]CROSSING THE FRONTIERS exhibited at the Eco-museum of Shepherding of Pontebernardo (Pietraporzio, CN) in the summer of 2020. The exhibition, which brings together a series of shots by the Cuneo photographer Luca Prestia, was moved and inaugurated in the Borgata Paraloup of...
Lilliput Lab The Lilliput Lab project, winner of the CRC Culture da Vivere Foundation’s call for proposals, aims to help make seven museums in the Cuneo area key points for the cultural and social growth of children and families in the area. The new Lilliputian museums are: Pontebernardo Eco-museum of Shepherding, Borgata Paraloup Museum of...
Transhumance TransHUMANce is an artist’s residency that aims to continue the process of enhancing the cross-border culture linked to transhumance, initiated by the Eco-museum of Shepherding in the Stura Valley, through a different point of view: that of artistic interpretation and the creation of site-specific works of art, which are the result of permanence and...
TradInnovation TradINNOVAtion is a project for the tourist-cultural enhancement and networking of two assets of the upper Stura Valley territory. The program is financed by the CRC Foundation in the interest of the call for proposals for Cultural Heritage, which stems from the idea of finding an innovative and sustainable strategy to increase the knowledge...
Eco-museums of taste The Eco-museums of Taste project, financed by the CRC Foundation as part of the Musei da Vivere call, is the result of the collaboration between four Eco-museums: the Eco-museum of Shepherding, the Terra del Castelmagno Eco-museum, the Rye Eco-museum and the Eco-museum of the Upper Maira Valley. The main aim of the...
