Clodig - Ruttar Collection

In Clodig, there is an important private ethnographic collection, gathered between 1950 and 1960 by Mario Ruttar, who brought together the objects of local peasant culture. The collection, contextualized within the domestic space of a typical house with a wood-fired kitchen and a stone sink, occupies five distinct rooms. Among the preserved items are tools used in the home and in agricultural and craft work, personal objects such as photographs, sacred images, trunks, suitcases, and transit documents that tell the story of emigration. All artefacts were cataloged between 1988 and 2008 with funding from the European Community and the Mountain Community of Torre, Natisone, and Collio, as part of the Leader project "Creation and management of an ethnographic museum for the collection of documentation on the environment and culture of the Natisone Valleys."
The exhibition features ladles, pots, cutlery, pipes, clocks, and materials of popular devotion, a collection of religious cards (both Friulian and foreign), tools for processing grain, equipment for grazing and shepherding (collars with cowbells, sheep-shearing scissors), and tools for working stone, leather, wood, and iron. There are also 25 irons of various shapes and sizes, heated in different ways, effectively summarizing the development of ironing techniques.
Info: +39 0432725003, open by appointment.