MUVIT – Torgiano Wine Museum
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MUVIT – Wine Museum

The Museo del Vino-MUVIT is hosted inside Palazzo Graziani-Baglioni, along the main street of Torgiano, a renowned viniculture production centre between Perugia and Assisi.

This Palace, built in the 17th century, represents an important example of a patrician rural estate. It was the summer residence of the Perugian Graziani family.

Its name "Graziani-Baglioni" is due to the marriage, in the 19th century, of Anna Graziani and Pietro Baglioni. Its premises have hosted the Wine Museum-MUVIT since 1974, when it was conceived of and realized by the initiative of Giorgio and Maria Grazia Lungarotti. The museum is unusual  in that it is privately owned with a thematic character, and is motivated more by historical and cultural ambitions than by business interests.

The collection is subdivided into thematic sections, but all of them are centered on the main subject: wine.

MUVIT – Torgiano Wine Museum

MUVIT- Sala V- Torchio di Catone

MUVIT – Torgiano Wine Museum

MUVIT- Sala XVII- Incisioni e disegni dal XV al XX secolo. Mitologia, viticoltura, costume.

MUVIT – Torgiano Wine Museum

MUVIT- Kylix, Vulci, fine sec. VI a.C

MUVIT- Mastro Giorgio, Infanzia di Bacco, 1528

MUVIT- Sala II-Viticoltura e vino in Umbria dagli Etruschi ai benedettini

MUVIT- Pablo Picasso, Baccanale, 1959

MUVIT- Bottega dei Fontana, Fiasca da parata

MUVIT- Jean Cocteau, Vaso antropomorfo, 1963

MUVIT- Hendrick Goltzius, Bacco con una coppa, sec. XVI-XVII

MUVIT- Pablo Picasso, Baccanale, 1959

Here the visitor can admire rare and important archaeological finds like ancient wine amphorae, ewers and symposium cups, ceramics from the Early Middle Ages to contemporary times, engravings, winemaking tools and, unique in its genre, a collection of Waffle Irons.

Managed by Lungarotti Foundation, the Museum occupies the rooms of the building that were once used for the storage and processing of agricultural products. Among the most interesting items collected are some ceramics, dated from the 16th century, of the Master Giorgio Andreoli, skilful master of the lusterware technique; engravings from Mantegna to Picasso and also the 18th century monumental wine press named "Catone", used until 1973.

Peculiar beer steins of a convivial banquet kind such as "drink if you can", alluding to ironic and convivial games, are exhibited inside the Museum, and the visitor is invited to find the mechanism that releases the wine. 

The museum's audio guides and multimedia contents are available directly on smartphones by connecting to the access points located along the museum route.

OPENING TIMES

From October to March:
Tuesday to Sunday 10 am -1 pm/3 – 5 pm
From April to June: 
Tuesday to Sunday 10 am -1 pm/3 – 6 pm 
From July to September:
Monday to Sunday 10 am -1 pm/3 – 6 pm

For information:
www.muvit.it 

Corso Vittorio Emanuele II
06089 - Torgiano (PG) 
email: prenotazionimusei@lungarotti.it

 

Fonte Regione Umbria - Servizio Musei e soprintendenza ai beni librari 

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