Laboratory Museum of Rural Life

Absolutely Fascinating!

This was our favorite museum in Matera and I was fortunate to be able to speak (in Italian) to the poet who collected the artifacts and displayed them in many, many rooms. We were the only visitors t...

“The Will to Live…It is in the Strength of our Wish.”

What a gem of a find. We especially enjoyed the conversations with the Poet Donato Cascione. The collection he has accumulated is pretty exceptional - where we could see how they may have lived in the...

NOSTALGICAL VISITE

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To do absolutely because this place, through its design and the objects presented, reflects what was the life of the Matera residents in the time of the sassis.

Interesting and familiar museum of our past

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Important experience for the knowledge of the past life, Mr. Donato who is careful of the museum person kind and sympathetic and is advised to who wants to make a dust in the eight hundred to live l...

Here .... time stopped

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We didn't think we could find Mr. Cascione who made us the tickets and made us to accommodate explaining some things of what we would see then. Shortly after that came also the daughter that for nos...