Utensilia Museum Underground

The “Utensilia” Museum is a carefully curated and documented collection of the life and productive means of the Marche region’s sharecroppers (mezzadri), who for years were the foundation of a rigidly self-sufficient society—almost a “domestic industry”—capable of meeting its daily needs through a semi-natural integration with the surrounding environment. The exhibition features a large selection of tools created by the farmers themselves for working in the fields, the home, and with animals, spread across eight thematic rooms. As the exhibition unfolds, these rooms narrate and define the raw materials, construction techniques, processes, and typical artifacts of the sharecropping culture.

Since 2008, the museum has been housed in the atmospheric underground areas of the castle, beneath “la Scarpa” (the Scarp), a succession of interconnected and unique rooms that were built at the end of the seventeenth century. On the even deeper level, tunnels created between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are visible and partially open to visitors.

Room A : The Blacksmith’s Work (voice of Luca Violini)

Room B : Artifacts

Room C : Raw Materials

Room D : Spinning and Weaving

Room E : Means of Transport and Work

Room F : The Cellar

Room G : Kitchen Utensils

Room H : Field Work