The Museum's founder Day

The Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina (Trentino Folklife Museum) will celebrate its 50th anniversary on 11 November (St Martin's day), from 10.00 to 18.00 by remembering the Museum's founder, Giuseppe Šebesta (Trento 1919 - Fondo 2005), ethnographer and writer from Trento.

The Museum staff and Giuseppe Šebesta’s friends propose a big party all day long, with interactive theme tours, educational workshops, music and shows.

Programme:

Braiding, weaving, the the path of the mills, of the copper, of the dairy farms, of the wood, the writings of the shepherds, the Šebesta archive, two rooms for Šebesta, 50 years of activity.

Weaving demonstration at the loom with textile worker Franca Vanzetta Canal

Rafts in the river, in collaboration with the Museo degli zattieri del Piave

Šebesta and the Val dei Mòcheni, in collaboration with the Bersntoler Kulturinstitut/Istituto culturale mòcheno

Wild Man Legends & Anguane Legends, with Andrea Foches

Šebesta in comic strips, with Fulber

Events:

at 11.00 – the celebration begins, with folk music by La Vecchia Mitraglia

at 11.30 - Le dita di Fuoco, show by Luciano Gottardi

at 16.00 – “Bombabà! – Ovvero del dolce stil pop novo del Monte Baldo” (music and choir)