In the nineteenth-century cellars of the historic Martini building in Pessione di Chieri, the collections on display are two very distinct.
The first is represented by the Martini Museum of the History of Oenology, inaugurated in 1961, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Unification of Italy, a collection of extraordinary value, made up of over 600 pieces, over a period of time from the seventh century BC to the present day. The collection is exhibited in 15 rooms and can be divided into two sections. The first seven rooms make up the archaeological area: in the display cases amphorae, vases, filters, cups of splendid workmanship, along a temporal axis that starts from Ancient Egypt, crosses classical Greece and reaches late Latinity.
The second section is instead dedicated to the modern era, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. There are monumental presses, ceremonial floats, alembic vats; next to them a miscellany of precious objects in silver or crystal, made by manufactures all over the world. The Museum was created from the private collection of Lando Rossi di Montelera, a nephew of the founder Luigi Rossi, and was then enriched and perfected over the years, always keeping up with the times. Intimate and spectacular, the Martini Museum invites visitors to a fascinating journey through time, involving intelligence, emotion and beauty.
