The Ecology Museum of the Educational Park – Nazzano
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The museum, which adopts an essentially anthropological approach, is located in the Bussolini Farmstead, a very significant example of a rural building in the Rome area inside a long-standing estate and thus the ideal “conservation area” for materials relating to the life and culture of the traditional society which up until last century represented the anthropic history of the area.
Conceived as a documentation centre and permanent laboratory facility for environmental education, the Environmental Museum illustrates through its archive documents and documents related to oral traditions, but also through material objects, the relationship between man and nature and more specifically in this case, between man and the river.
Information panels and computer training simulations allow one to get a close look at various aspects connected to the customary cultivation cycles for hillside areas, cattle farming and sheep-farming as well as getting to know the various figures and crafts specifically associated with the presence of the river and the port: so beside the farmers, cattle raisers and craftsmen there are also the wood merchants, the millers, the boatmen, the ferrymen and those who used to drag boats upstream.
To further highlight the strong connection with the river, attention has been paid to the cultural dimension, to the festive and ceremonial moments connected to the confraternities which today still kindle the worship of the patron saint, Sant’Antimo, whose very particular saintly existence is closely linked to the river Tiber.
The radical changes and transformations that have overcome traditional societies, which have led to the widespread abandoning of agriculture and the “re-naturalisation” of tilled land, have meant that this area has now become a park which has even enabled birds of passage to be reinstated. These changes are part of what one can investigate through the museum, along with the study, through archive documents, of the microcosm of the estate itself, of which one can retrace the history and development through the many objects, tools and utensils which have been collected and subsequently donated by the people of Nazzano to the museum, and which were so essential to daily life in the area only a few decades ago.
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