Worth Repeating: A Museum of Everyday Things

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 5/4/15:

WORTH-REPEATING“‘I’m a guardian of time,’ says 74-year-old Domenico Agostinelli when I ask about his great passion, a passion that has led him over the past 60 years to pick up and collect things of all types, from antique art to everyday objects of the past and present. . . . Domenico says that most museums and collections of antiques were created by the nobility and the clergy as testimony to their own wealth; he instead has created his museum as testimony to humble, simple hardworking people, rich only with peasant wisdom.” Read more and see some wonderful photos of the museum in Dragona, Italy.

 

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