Museum of the Historical Landscape of the Apennines

The museum is located in the Abbey of San Pietro in Moscheta, founded in 1034, whose history is described in the first rooms of the museum. It charts the way the Vallombrosan monks used the resources of the woods.

The other exhibits trace the history of the Apennine landscape and the “signs” inscribed upon it by human presence, starting with the landscape of woodland and castles around the turn of the millennium and then moving on to the introduction of agriculture, the major changes wrought on the natural landscape in the 18th and 19th century, followed by the gradual abandoning of the mountains and finally the recent rediscovery of its cultural values.