Etnographic Museum

The Museum is dedicated to Giovanni Podenzana, who in the beginning of 19th century recovered objects related to the folk tradition and the peasant life which was disappearing in the wake of industrialisation.
A journey from the pre-classical world of art to modernity.

The Museo Etnografico “Giovanni Podenzana” is one of the most ancient departments of the La Spezia City Museum, founded in 1873: it saves, studies, exhibits and promotes local and extra-regional ethnography items, collected since the 1850s.
The Museum is a meeting point for anthropology and ethnography researchers, especially for those who study the historical area known as Lunigiana storica. It works together with other Italian and international institutes.

The Museum is located in the city center of La Spezia, inside the premises of the 15th Century Oratory dedicated to St. Bernardino from Siena.