The Lace Museum The Museo del Merletto is hosted inside Palazzo delle Opere Pie, in the small village on the western side of the Isola Maggiore—Tuoro sul Trasimeno Municipality
The Museum displays a vast assortment of handmade lacework executed in the School of Embroidery instituted in the first years of the 20th century by the Marchioness Elena Guglielmi with the aim of economically emancipating the women of the island.
In the school the daughters of the fishermen, residents of the island, learned the delicate work of producing crochet lace—so called Irish lace—that was then sold in Perugia and Rome, also to the Royal Family, thanks to the Guglielmis' acquaintances.