The Don Luigi Pellegrini Provincial Ethnographical Museum contains a collection that testifies to the centuries-old rural civilization of the Serchio Valley and the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. Starting from the 60s of the last century, the parish priest Don Luigi Pellegrini began collecting objects that represented the popular and peasant tradition.
The Virtual and Multimedia Museum of Fortresses and Fortifications of the Serchio Valley is located in the historic center of Barga.
Inside the museum, through films and information panels, the visitor can have an immersive and interactive experience to discover the historical events and wonders of the area, between memory and innovation.
In the main room there is a control panel that allows you to select the various cultural contents, divided into four sections:
Giacomo Puccini's family spent the summer of 1891 in this splendid residence, on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli. Maestro Puccini was enchanted by the beauty of Torre del Lago and decided to spend his holidays there in subsequent years. In 1899 he bought the house and had it renovated to transform it into the current two-storey villa with the typical liberty look of the late nineteenth-century middle-class homes.
The birthplace of Maestro Giacomo Puccini is located on the second floor of an ancient building located in the heart of the historic centre of Lucca,
Giacomo was born here on December 22, 1858. His family's ancestors lived in Lucca as early as the 17th century and the family had settled in this house since 1815.
The Museum of the Old Mint of Lucca is located in the Casermetta San Donato, on the city walls and testifies to the activity of the Mint of Lucca, the oldest and most long-lived in Europe, which minted coins from the time of the Lombards to Carlo Lodovico of Bourbon (from 650 to 1843).
The Museum of the plaster figurine and emigration of Coreglia Antelminelli was established in 1975.
The Museum is located in the historic center, in a building that belonged to Baron Carlo Vanni, a figurine maker who lived for a long time in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Athena Museum in Capannori, housed in an eighteenth-century palace of the seventeenth century, offers a journey into the history of this territory through an archaeological and ethno-graphic exhibition.
The Versilian Archaeological Museum Bruno Antonucci, is located in the municipality of Pietrasanta.
The museum collection is the result of the search for archaeological finds by the Versilian Speleological and Archaeological Group, led by Professor Bruno Antonucci. The artefacts found tell the story of Versilia from Prehistory to the Middle Ages.
The museum itinerary is divided into thematic areas, each dedicated to a particular historical period in Versilia
The Museum of Work and Popular Traditions of Historical Versilia is housed inside the Medici Palace in Seravezza, built by Cosimo I in the second half of the 1500s and today a UNESCO World Heritage Site; together with the Villas and Medici Gardens of Tuscany.
The Historical Museum of Sant’Anna di Stazzema was inaugurated in 1982 by the President of the Italian Republic Sandro Pertini, and is dedicated to the themes of the Second World War, the Resistance and the atrocious Nazi-Fascist massacres.