WiMu - Museo del Vino a Barolo, Piedmont, Italy
3.5 (1.335 reviews) Friday: 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #8 in Province of Cuneo Speciality Museums
Quirky museum of wine. More like an art museum.
Italy’s most innovative wine museum, as well as one of the world’s most important, opened its gates to the public in September 2010. It is set in the heart of a territory that is famous for its wines, and in the halls and rooms of a castle with a thousand-year history. Created from the imagination of François Confino, a designer of displays and installations in worldwide museums, the Barolo Wine Museum is an interactive voyage through culture and wine traditions. It plays on the millennia old beverage as a cultural product that is able to trace the evolution of entire civilizations, influence great artistic expression, and shape territories and their people. It is wine’s close ties to humanity and how it is interwoven with our history and traditions across countless civilizations that the WiMu wishes to express. As Confino clearly stated: «I have visited several museums dedicated to wine in the world. But none of them told of wine’s extraordinary cultural dimensions. It was fundamen
Address
Piazza Falletti Castello Falletti di Barolo, 12060 Barolo Italy
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Website
http://www.wimubarolo.it/
Working hours
Monday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 10:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 7:44
User Ratings
3.5 based on (1.335 reviews)
Reviews
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4Elizabeth J 5:00 PM Jun 8, 2018
Mad
An experience not to be missed but not an education. Interesting building and an interesting topic to discuss
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4Frances M 5:00 PM Sep 21, 2021
A quirky view of wine
This worldwide history of wine is presented here in a quirky manner that I thought made it interesting, though some of the displays appear somewhat dated. It was also a chance to look around the castle and learn about its history and resident families. Overall it's an interesting way to find out more about the village and the area of Barolo.
