The Ecomuseum Colombano Romean Salbertrand is divided into 12 sections distributed on the territory of the municipality of Salbertrand, along an endless path. It collects the memories of land and water of the Community.
The path comprises: the hydraulic mill, which tells eight hundred years of exploitation of water, from feudal rights of milling the production of electricity; in the same building as the school of a time and an ethnographic exhibition; the common furnace of the fraction Oulme; the ancient charcoal pile and the lime kiln; the nineteenth-century icebox with the adjoining pond of supply; the smoke sauna built thanks to a European project conducted by Politecnico di Torino; the site dedicated to the glorious return of the Waldensians. Near the pond of icebox is under construction the forest dockyard.
The visit to the ecomuseum also includes the beautiful parish church of S. John the Baptist and the chapel, recently restored, of the Annunziata Oulme. Is under construction the forest dockyard.
Ancient buildings and artifacts themselves to the visitor as examples of a past today to discover.
The various sections of the Ecomuseum are visitable, on booking, for all the arc of the year (with some limitations in winter, for sites inside the park). For school groups and other organized groups are provided thematic accompaniments carried out by specialized guides and are designed educational paths.
From 2006 was started a fruitful collaboration with the Cultural Association Artemuda that manages the Permanent Laboratory for theatrical research of Salbertrand and has animated the guided visits to the Ecomuseum with teatralizzati accompaniments. In order to facilitate the visits self-guided was designed a ring route equipped with appropriate signs and descriptive panels, which is articulated between the protected area and the streets of the old village of Salbertrand and were made of illustrative leaflets, translated into French, English and German, available at the headquarters of the park and the tourist offices of the territory.
ecomuseo.salbertrand@ruparpiemonte.it