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:
The Carnival Museum, housed in the modern structure of the Cittadella del Carnevale in Viareggio, is the largest space in Italy dedicated to this cultural and popular tradition. In this place you can find the hangars where the wagons are built and kept, the tanker's workshops, the Museum and a Historical Documentation Center.
The Archaeological Museum of the Garfagnana Territory is located inside the thirteenth-century fortress of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, now known as Rocca Ariostesca for having hosted for some years, from 1522 to 1525, the poet and writer Ludovico Ariosto as Governor of the Garfagnana.
Over the centuries, the fortress has been subject to changes and additions. During the Second World War it suffered extensive of damage and its current appearance is due to the subsequent restoration work.
The Olimpio Cammelli Museum of the Identity of Alta Garfagnana is set in a wonderful natural setting in the mountains of the Apuan Alps on the hill called "Casa" in the Municipality of Minucciano. The Museum collects a rich collection dedicated to traditional work and crafts of the past.
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 Barsanti and Matteucci Museum is located in the historic center of Lucca near the Guinigi Tower and hosts a permanent exhibition dedicated to two Lucca scientists; inventors of the revolutionary internal combustion engine: father Eugenio Barsanti (1821-1864) and the engineer Felice Matteucci (1808 -1887).
The Italian Museum of Folklore Imaginary, inaugurated in 2019, was born thanks to the Documentation Center of the Oral Tradition in Piazza al Serchio.
The Documentation Center, coordinated for years by prof. Alberto Borghini of the Polytechnic of Turin, has collected and recorded thousands of unpublished stories of the Italian oral tradition (including fairy tales, legends and popular beliefs), in order to preserve their memory for future generations.