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Museum of Farming Culture
The Fratticciola Museum of Farming Culture
The Fratticciola Museum of Farming Culture is a means of preserving and valuing the cultural, historical and ethnographic heritage of the agricultural world of the Valdichiana. It combines material – mostly from the association “The Cart” – with other artefacts collected in the area. Together, these provide an account ...
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The Chianino Agricultural Cart
The Chianino agricultural cart is one of the symbols of the Valdichiana farming society. Distinguishing features are the long curved poles at the front, the long beam, and the typical decorations on the sides. The cart was used for every kind of transport, but particularly for bringing produce from the fields back to the farmyard during the ...
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Large Cart
This extra large cart was used for transporting heavy loads. In addition to items strictly related to the farming culture are others representing various crafts....
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Gig or Trap
For the most part drawn by horses, the gig was a means of transport. Considering that not every family could afford one, the gig also functioned as a status symbol....
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Sulphur Sprayers
These bellows or sprayers of very different sizes were used to treat grapevines or fruit trees....
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Scales and Cash Register
In addition to objects closely related to farming culture, some tools representing specific crafts are also present. Among these are scales with two dishes used commercially for weighing foodstuffs in particular, and one of the earliest prototypes of an English manufactured cash register....
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Carpenter's Workbench
In addition to objects closely related to farming culture, some tools representing specific crafts are also present. Among these is a carpenter's workbench with some of the essential tools moved by means of a foot pedal....
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Plough
The seeding plough was attached to the oxen or cows and pushed by the farmer holding the handle provided. In this way the ploughshare dug the furrow ready to be seeded....
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Jack
This was used to lift heavy objects such as barrels....
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Carding Machine
Women used the carding machine on winter evenings to comb and clean hemp or raw wool, which was then spun to be made into cloth....
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Pumps for decanting wine
Pumps were necessary for decanting wine and other liquids....
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Screw Press
This press, used to squeeze the grapes during the grape harvest, is one of the most impressive exhibits in the show. Made entirely from wood, it was probably constructed in the nineteenth century....
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The Bottling Machine
Bottling machines, one in iron the other in wood, were required for corking and sealing the wine bottles. ...
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Farmers' conflicts with the Etruscans
Small funeral urns with the image of the hero with the plough smashing the heads of some soldiers, 2 nd century BC The hero with the plough is the recurring image on the small urns containing the ashes of small landowners from the area of Chiusi in the Hellenistic era; a sort of symbol of their membership of a proletarian class in the ...
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The farmers' struggles in the 1900s
Front page of the newspaper “La Falce” (The Scythe), a propagandist document on the social struggles at the beginning of the 20 th century, with iconographical references to the rural world. At the beginning of the 1900s the farmers reacted in increasingly critical and controversial ways to their role as tenant farmers ( mezzadrie ...
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The agricultural year and the liturgical year
Farmers with hay sheaves for benediction, 17 th January, 1913, Fototeca Furio del Furia, Foiano della Chiana The agricultural year was also regulated according to the liturgical year in order to favour the harvests to the maximum through the intercession of the deities. At other times, simple superstition brought about the same help. The ...
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Farming Record Book
This represents one of the most important symbols of the farming culture. It was officially called the Farm Account Book. Every tenant farmer's family kept one. In it had to be registered every transaction in debit or credit between the farmer and his employer....
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The ox in the Tuscan agricultural world
In Tuscan farming life, oxen were true machines for work and were not eaten unless they could no longer plough or pull carts. In fact for Tuscan farmers their oxen were an excuse to show off. Every visit to a farm required a look into the stalls where livestock and prices were discussed. The animals' feet were an object of particular attention, ...
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