MUVIT – Museum of Wine | MaPp MuseiAppPerugia

Since 1974 the pars agricola (agricultural wing) of the 17th century Palazzo Graziani Baglioni in Torgiano has been home, in a dynamic synergy with actual wine production, to the MUVIT museum which celebrates wine’s cultural impact and five thousand years of wine history.

Beginning with the technical section, dominated by a monumental torchio a trave (wine press) and a series of archaeological finds dating from the 3rd century B.C. to the late Roman era (with a particular focus on the spread of wine production around the Mediterranean), the museum’s extensive collections are grouped into three thematic clusters: alimentazione (food), medicina (medicine) and mito (mythology).

Among the collections featuring some of Umbria’s oldest traditions, there are displays of ceramics, metalwork, glass artifacts, drawings, woodcuttings and engravings as well as a selection of interesting manuscripts and publications.

Our ceramics collection includes a range of artifacts dating from the Early Medieval era to the present day with some fine Renaissance pieces. The glassware on display spans the Roman era to the 19th century and our assortment of artisanal metalwork work includes both domestic and agricultural tools as well as more refined pieces such as a series of wafer making irons.

There are over six hundred manuscripts, woodcuttings and drawings (from Mantegna to Picasso) as well as some exquisite antique book editions. Our mythology tour also is suitable very young children as your remarkable guide is Dionysius personified.