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 collection, donated in 1987 to the Provincial Administration of Lucca and witness of a noble and hard-working era, is kept in the medieval halls of the suggestive “hospitale” of San Pellegrino in Alpe, next to the ancient Sanctuary, a place of profound spirituality.

The museum tells the story of peasant, pastoral, artisan and domestic life in the Apennine mountains.

In the exhibition, divided into 14 thematic rooms, it is possible to admire both everyday objects, dated from the early nineteenth century to the present day, and reconstructions of domestic life environments. Ample space is dedicated to working life and illustrates the agricultural cycles of weaving, livestock breeding, the chestnut cycle, artisan crafts and itinerant trades of a bygone era.

The visit ends with the exhibition of the original costumes of the Maggio tradition, a form of popular theater sung and handed down in oral form for many generations.