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Visit to the paper museum

Availability

All year

Duration

Variable 

Description

The museum structure was build inside the authentic ancient paper mill to let the visitors start a fascinating journey discovering the main stages in the development of papermaking, from its origin up until the 20th century. First the oldest part opens up to visitors, and the discover of every different steps about the centuries-old history art of papermaking. The raw materials utilized to make paper were rags (from linen, cotton or hemp fabrics). They were then sorted out and cut. The shredded rags were immerse in stone vats full of water and quicklime to soak and left to macerate. These stone vats are still to be seen in the museum. After soaking, the rags were placed into special wooden vats where they were beaten by a set of hammers driven by an external water wheel and transformed into a fine white pulpThe rag pulp was then transformed into a sheet of paper by the master paper maker by using a special rectangular mould.
After being pressed to remove di excess water, the sheets were hung to dry one by one in a vast drying area in the upper floors. Finally they were immersed into animal glue in order to prevent them from absorbing too much ink and ready to be flattened in the smoothing room. There is also a special industrial archaeology room where you can admire remains found during the excavation works carried out by archaeologists in the Paper Valley. A brand new interactive table will let you experience the daily life in an old paper mill. A room is dedicated to the story of the typographers Paganini where you can admire rare and precious volumes, printed in Toscolano the first half of 16th Century.

What's included

Visit of the museum

Where

Via Valle delle Cartiere n. 57/59 -&nbsp;25088 Toscolano Maderno (BS)<br />

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Languages

ITA -EN 

Additional information

Required documents: printed voucher  with reservation
 
Pre sale: at least 48h before 
 
Min. age: no
 
Cancellation policy: not refundable

Penalty: 100% charge

Covid requirements

In order to protect all the participants and people involved in the activity, we kindly request to avoid the participation on case of one of these symptoms: 

- Temperature higher than 37.5
- Cough, Sore throath or breathing difficulty
- Fadigue, muscle or body anches 

We also request to let us know if you've been with symptomatic people in the last 14 days or if you come from a risk area (declared as such byt authorities) in the last 14 days. 
 
By taking part at the above activity, you implicitly confirm you are free by these listed risky factors 

Visit to the paper museum