Responsibilities and functions
The Trentino Ethnographic Museum San Michele was founded in 1968 thanks to the fortunate museographic intuition of Giuseppe Šebesta and offers a rich exhibition itinerary. The Museum is distinguished by the attention paid to the agro-forestry system of the Trentino mountains and to the craftwork supporting the farming world - wood, iron, copper, ceramics, textiles - up to the testimonies of religiosity, music and folklore. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the Museum also offers an intense educational activity with themed educational trails and themed creative workshops for the whole family at different times of the year, as well as courses for adults teaching activities that are now little practised. The Museum is also a publishing house and an important research centre. It also houses a library and a specialised media library with more than 17,000 volumes and serves as a centre for ethnographic studies for the entire Alpine region.