The Mountain and Smuggling Museum is housed in a typical Walser architecture building located in Prati in the hamlet of Staffa. Outside there is a bust of the artist G. Radice in memory of the great painter Carlo Bossone. The exhibition is divided into three themes united by the common thread of the mountain. On the ground floor there is a valuable cycle of plates by the Milanese caricaturist and publicist Aldo Mazza (1880-1964), which tell with irony the mountaineering at Monte Rosa.
On the mezzanine floor, an important collection of finds illustrates the mountaineering history of Macugnaga, many of which belonged to climbers who perished on the "Rosa" face and were returned by the glacier. In the corridor are placed materials and equipment with which the famous Macugnaga Guide Group conquered the east face of Monte Rosa: skis, ropes, backpacks, crampons and original clothing perfectly preserved. The mountaineering section is completed by a series of documents on the great Macugnaga mountain guide Mattia Zurbriggen (the first climber of Aconcagua).
The section dedicated to smuggling, through a very rich documentation, bears witness to the recent past of the mountain populations. Photographs, journalistic articles, direct testimonies allow the deepening of an illegality that often translated into the only form of sustenance of entire families.
