The Pisoniano Hemp Museum is located in a building along the main street of the town and was born from a collection of two twin brothers, Settimio and Domenico Bernardini.
The brothers who collected ancient tools and tools for processing, hemp artifacts and many precious oral testimonies.
After a highly successful exhibition in 1997, the collection has become a museum by investigating the naturalistic, cultural and anthropological aspects of this plant.
Until a few decades ago, hemp was grown and processed in the Aniene Valley to make fabric, used for sheets, bags, ropes, etc. and the museum was created to preserve, promote and enhance these traditions.
Route of the Museum
In the rooms it is possible to find the whole cultivation and working process: from the preparation of the soil and the sowing (which took place in March in the canapines near the small rivers of the valley) to the summer harvest, first of the female plants and then of those male.
We then move on to processing, spinning, warping and weaving.
The museum, and is spread over three floors dedicated to hemp in nature, the production cycle and the anthropological aspects related to hemp in domestic use and in rural everyday life).
The multiple uses of hemp should be remembered, from its ancient use as a textile fiber to pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic and construction use.
A section is dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci's machines, with an extraordinary series of reproductions of the inventions of the Italian genius, and shows Leonardo's creations in relation to the use of textile hemp for fabrics and ropes.
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