Like every year in the month of November, the MAV-Museum of Traditional Aosta Valley Crafts is closed to the public to dedicate itself to its heritage.
This autumn month is in fact dedicated to the care of the collections: the museum’s works are subjected to control, cleaning and maintenance conservation interventions . The task of every museum is certainly to enhance and disseminate culture and make its collections accessible, but it is first and foremost to take care of its own heritage. The latter belong to the community and it is a duty for a museum to commit to their protection.
After this month of heritage care, the MAV will reopen to the public on Saturday, November 30.
Being and Weaving. Tradition and New Trends
From November 16th, the Collegiate Church of Saints Peter and Orso in Aosta will open to the public the exhibition “Being and Weaving. Tradition and New Trends”.
The exhibition was born from the desire to tell the story of the textile craftsmanship of the Aosta Valley , a set of knowledge with ancient origins, so deeply rooted in a territory that it is its cultural expression.
The story of the textile tradition starts from the textile cooperatives, artisanal realities that continue and renew a thousand-year-old tradition : Les Dentellières de Cogne with their delicate lace, Lou Dzeut of Champorcher with the loom weaving of hemp and Les Tisserands of Valgrisenche with the Drap, loom woven in Rosset wool. The exhibition then invites the visitor to turn their gaze to some new directions of local textile production that through the artistic or sartorial reworking of tradition have given life to new forms of interpretation of textile craftsmanship.
An exhibition that celebrates the artisan tradition as a cultural heritage to be preserved, enhanced and reinvented in every form.
The exhibition can be visited from 16 November 2024 to 4 May 2025 in the exhibition hall of the Collegiate Church of Saints Peter and Orso in Aosta.
Admission is free.