MAV - Traditional Aosta Valley Craft Museum
Resort: Fénis
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm
Monday closed.
Open Easter, Easter Monday, 15 August and St. Orso Fair (30 and 31 January).
Full-Price ticket € 8.00
Reduced € 5.00 for:
groups of at least 25 people, over-65s, young people aged 19–25, university students, residents of Valle d’Aosta, registered journalists, qualified tourist guides, affiliated organisations, and those holding valid tickets.
Reduced plus € 2.00 for:
school groups, groups accompanied by accredited guides.
Free entry:
children and young people aged 0–18
people with disabilities holding certification under Law 104/92 and their carers, teachers and accompanying staff of school groups, tourist guides accompanying groups, journalists in the course of their professional duties, holders of the Museum Pass, members of ICOM, staff of the Ministry of Culture and members of the Higher Council for Cultural Heritage, members of institutional bodies and employees of IVAT, researchers or distinguished visitors to the Aosta Valley authorised by the management.
Guided visit: € 12.00 full, € 3.00 reduced (for those entitled to free admission), free for children aged 0–3
including admission to the museum (for groups of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 25 people
MAV ticket + Fénis Castle: €11 full price, €9 reduced
the combined ticket can be purchased at the castle ticket office or on the MidaTicket website and is valid only on the day it was issued
Accessibility
Site accessible to disabled people in wheelchairs.
Blind and partially sighted people can take advantage, upon reservation, of a guided tour that allows the tactile experience of some artisanal objects and their materials.
The MAV is a museum devoted to traditional Valle d’Aosta craftsmanship.
The traditional craftsmanship of Valle d’Aosta carries within it a wealth of symbols, knowledge, identity values and extraordinary creative processes of which the objects created are the custodians.
Inaugurated in Fénis in 2009, this year, 2022, the museum has a renewed exhibition itinerary that takes visitors on an ideal journey which starts from memory and then continues with matter, form, gesture and beauty.
The first section presents the exhibition of the entire Brocherel Collection whose objects are told as producers of memory.
The second room, devoted to matter, instead investigates the close relationship between the territory and craftsmanship, between that craftsmanship and the matter it shapes.
The path then continues on with form, that which shapes objects in the encounter between craftsmanship and matter, and gesture, that is the pure manual skills of which the artisans are bearers, a unique intangible heritage of knowledge, without which there would be no object.
The new exhibition ends with a look at the avant-garde, at the ability of creation to go beyond its own time, and at beauty, as an individual, objective or social aesthetic judgment of a set of objects.
Agreement between the castle of Fenis and the MAV:
from 1 August the Museum ticket can be purchased at the price of € 2.00, in combination with the castle ticket, at the castle ticket office, the tourist offices or at the MIDA ticket office and is valid only on the day of issue.
*In order to keep up to date with all the initiatives and activities of the MAV, visit the web site indicated in the “Contacts” section.
*In order to learn more about craftmanship in Valle d’Aosta “read more”: /it/cultura/tradizione/artigianato