The Museum was designed in close liason with the Regional Centre for the Study of Musical Traditions that carries out the important activity of ethno-musicological research throughout the whole territory of the Aniene Valley, as well as music production to conserve and record traditional music, songs and sounds that have disappeared or only exist in rare testimonies that survive in an oral form.
Housed in the ground floor of the newly-renovated building of the old slaughterhouse, the museum is dedicated especially to the exhibition of documents and relics of the rich tradition of the middle Aniene Valley linked to ancient brotherhoods.
The museum is divided into two sections: the first illustrates the history and the salient moments of popular worship, the ceremonies and the religious feasts shown through a series of objects and handmade articles regarding the processions organised by the brotherhoods of St Trinità, Guadalupa, Assunta, and St. Antonio; the second exhibition shows the real musical aspect, with special reference to popular musical instruments like the accordion, the bagpipes, the tambourine and above all the “zampogna zoppa” (a type of bagpipe from the Aniene Valley), and the musical repertoire of the brotherhoods and nineteenth-century band tradition of Arsoli, documented by a series of scores, works set to music, manuscripts and compositions for bands.
 
The idea for a more avant-garde museum project dates back to 2005, planning to create a type still not well-known in Lazio: the Ecomuseum. Better known for their application in the naturalistic field, ecomuseums are also structures of anthropological museography: they are built with the direct participation of the population, who intend to present themselves and remain as a community, with its past and present.
 
The ecomuseum is an advanced concept of territorial museum according to which, through the reading of documents, manufactured articles, buildings and oral testimonies, you can recreate a reading of the territory itself.
 
Its aim is to reconstruct, testify and valorise the architectural manufactured articles or the objects that are testimonies of the life of a territory and, above all, the historical memory, the life, the material culture, the relationship between the natural environment and the environment affected by human activity, the traditions, the activities and the way in which traditional settlements have characterised the formation and the evolution of the landscape.

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