MUVIT Museo del Vino Torgiano (Wine Museum of Torgiano)

Conceived and created by Giorgio and Maria Grazia Lungarotti, the MUVIT Wine Museum  was opened to the public in 1974. It is located in Torgiano, in the pars agricola of the monumental Graziani-Baglioni mansion, a XVII century noble summer residence, and today is managed by the Fondazione Lungarotti Onlus.

The Museum itinerary, twenty rooms with more than 3000 artworks on display, proposes a veritable time machine that travels across 5000 years of history of wine culture and history, analysing customs and way of life, myth and legendary aspects and several different symbolic meanings linked to the beverage sacred to the gods.

Archaeological finds from the III millennium b. C. to the Roman times, technical equipment and sets for viticulture and vinification, ceramic wine vessels from the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary periods, engravings and drawings from the XV to XX centuries, prestigious antique books on viticulture and enology, artefacts of goldsmithery, weaving and other pieces representing the applied arts, all document the importance of wine in the collective imagery of the civilizations that over the millennia have lived in the Mediterranean basin and continental Europe.

The individual collections in the museum, according to modern museological criteria and rigorous scientific protocol, propose the theme of viticulture and Bacchus as a leitmotiv for reading the historical events which the individual pieces depict.

Reviewed by the New York Times as “best in Italy” thanks to the quality of its artistic collections, the Wine Museum was recently appointed among the Top 10 Best Wine Museums of the world by the prestigious magazine The Drinks Business.