The ethnographic museum has two locations in the Borgo di Poschiavo: the baroque Palazzo de Bassus-Mengotti and the Casa Tomé, a medieval farmhouse. The two buildings present the various facets of the local past. Built in 1655 and then expanded over the next two centuries, the Palazzo is the most significant stately residence in the valley, and its rooms house the museum's ethnographic collections and temporary exhibitions. A window to completely different realities is also discovered there, thanks to the Poschiavo Municipality's collections of Etruscan and Indian art. Even M13, the bear that has caused much national discussion about the presence of large predators, has found a new den in the Palace.

Opposed to the Palazzo is the Casa Tomé: barn and hayloft, the caligin-blackened kitchen and rooms tell the story of peasant life layered over nearly seven hundred years of history. This is where the activities of the "From Field to Table" educational tours are concentrated.


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