Project INTERREG IIIA Italia-Austria

     With the support of the local authority “Comunità Montana dell’Alpago”, a project has been set up to promote awareness of both the Museum and the local area.
     The material on which the project’s activities are based is housed on the three floors of the Museum building: Zoology on the ground floor; Entomology, Geology and Mineralogy, Paleontology and Human Anatomy on the first floor; diorama, a collection of wood specimens, Fungi and a Botanical section on the top floor.
     The idea behind the project is to connect the surrounding territory with the information available in the Museum, by offering sensory experiences to the users, particularly those of school age. Thus five trails have been chosen, connected to themes presented in the Museum, that is learning trails (or “Lehrwege” as they are defined by our Austrian partner museum, Hohe Tauern Park). These trails were selected to show visitors characteristic aspects of the area, where they can see and study the elements shown in the Museum in their natural environment.
They are:

The Wetlands Nature Trail: by Santa Croce Lake near Farra and Puos d’Alpago for fauna observation. Here many wetland characteristics can be seen – the type of woodland, the reed beds and the local fauna, while in the Museum the animal species are on display as well as a wetland diorama;

The Tessina landslip – a geomorphological trail near Chies d’Alpago which makes a circuit round the landslip so that the most significant aspects can be seen, while the Museum dedicates a whole display to the mechanism which underlies it, together with a collection of minerals and fossils;

Sant’Antonio Tiriton – a forest trail near Tambre showing a part of the Cansiglio Forest where various aspects of the forest environment can be seen, including conservation and protection. The principal trees here are Silver Fir, Spruce and Beech. Two displays in the Museum have related exhibits: one shows a cross section of a Larch trunk with the method used for estimating the age of a tree; the other is a collection of wood specimens from all the different kinds of trees growing in the area;

Pieve d’Alpago – archaeology trail near Pieve d’Alpago which links the two most important sites in Alpago: the Roman necropolis at Staol di Curago and the Iron Age necropolis at Pian de la Gnela. The objects found there are held by the regional authority in Padova, but the Museum is seen as their eventual home;

Malga Cate and Val Salatis – a nature and history trail above Chies d’Alpago which follows old paths to summer pastures along the valley of Val Salatis with its two contrasting sides, showing old grazing areas, woodland vegetation and alpine pasture, local rural architecture in the form of barns, a lime kiln and sheep pen, elements of a way of life which can then be explained in the Museum lecture hall.

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     The opportunity offered by the Interreg IIIA Italy-Austria programme has enabled the Comunità Montana dell’Alpago to join the group of organizations working towards European integration.
     Through the project “From the Museum to the land of Alpago - trails for discovery and learning” (Cod. VEN222012), contacts were made with the Austrian partner, “The Hohe Tauern Park” which, in Austria, has developed “The House of Water”, a meeting point for young people interested in understanding water in its many aspects.
     Together with “The House of Water” the “Alti Tauri Park” has been developing learning trails which its Italian partner, the Natural History Museum in Alpago, has used as a model for introducing a wider public to its territory and thus create a link between the two.
     I hope these projects will become increasingly popular in neighbouring countries, so enhancing their natural history resources and respective scientific and human knowledge.

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     With the support of the local authority “Comunità Montana dell’Alpago”, a project has been created to promote awareness of both the Museum and the local area.
     The material on which the project’s activities are based is housed on the three floors of the Museum building.
     The idea behind the project is to connect the surrounding territory with the information available in the Museum, by offering sensory experiences to the users, particularly those of school age.
     Thus five trails have been chosen, connected to themes presented in the Museum, that is learning trails (or “Lehrwege” as they are defined by our Austrian partner museum, Hohe Tauern Park).
     These trails were selected to show visitors characteristic aspects of the area, where they can see and study the elements on display in the Museum in their natural environment.

Autori dei testi e delle foto:
Ivano Alfarè, Carlo Argenti, Maria Teresa Candiani, Ester Cason, Armando Comin, Cesare Dal Freddo, Marilena Dalle Vedove, Oscar Del Vecchio, Ivan Fossa, Enzo Gatti, Juri Nascimbene, Ezio Padovan, Fabio Padovan, Elena Piutti, Ausilio Priuli, Giorgio Zampieri.
Traduzioni:
Janet Kilkenny, Christel Klehm.
Cartografia:
Fabio Padovan (BL).

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PROGETTO CO-FINANZIATO DALL'UNIONE EUROPEA MEDIANTE IL FONDO EUROPEO DI SVILUPPO REGIONALE
INIZIATIVA COMUNITARIA INTERREG IIIA ITALIA-AUSTRIA 200-2006 - COD. VEN. 222012