You can visit the Civic Museum on:

Wednesday from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm

Thursday from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm

Friday from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm

Saturday from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm

Sunday from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm

The museum is closed on holidays: 1 and 6 January, Easter, 25 April, 1 May, 2 June, 15 August, 1 November, 8, 25 and 26 December

Other days on reservation telephoning to:
0039-0341-700381 or 0039-333-7229732

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FEES

Full Price: 5.00 euro

Reduced fare: (until 14 years old, over 65 years old, groups up to 15 people, residents in Abbadia Lariana) 3.00 euro

Free entry: people with disabilities and their carers

The tour includes a skilled guide.

1818 Pietro Monti, a throwster, came to Abbadia Lariana From Milan. He transformed the old building for felting wool into a place for the production of silk.

In 1869 he enlarged the building and he added a new one for the spinning of cocoons; the first of the two spinning machines was demolished and in its place three rectangular spinning machines were built. The second circular spinning machine, which hadn't been working since 1934, was bought by the Abegg family, it was dismantled and offered to the Technorama Museum of Winterthur (Switzerland) in 1965. Throwing activity lastex until 1934.

After a period of standstill and degradation, the town council of Abbadia Lariana bought the building in 1978. The works of restoration of the buildings and of the spinning machine starter in 1981, though passing through several hard moments. The circular spinning machine of 1818 can still work. In 1998 the “Museo Setificio Monti” was finally opened.

The museum is composed by the Monti complex: the spinning machine of 1818 and the spinning mill of 1869. The complex is composed by 2 buildings, one with the spinning machine-winder, the other one with the spinning mill and its activities. Before the restoration works started, there were nothing left of the spinning mill building, while there were still the three rectangular spinning machines and 15% of the circular spinning machine. Besides the ruins of some auxuliary machine, there are two hydraulic wheels, now under restoration works, with the irrigation ditch. The circular Spinning machine of about 1818, 11mt. High and 5mt. Large. It is a four-storey machine, perfectly working.