Museum of the Mercury Mines of Mount Amiata - Santa Fiora - Il Monte Amiata

Address

Piazza Garibaldi 25 - Centro storico

Museum

The museum is housed on the ground floor in the old Sforza-Cesarini palace. The exposition tour revolves around six rooms of which it is possible to follow the mining activities and events that relate to the strong ties that have characterized Monte Amiata between 1800 and 1900,s with particular reference to the areas around the municipalities of Santa Fiora and Castell’Azzara. The exhibition panels document the techniques of research and extraction of Mercury from that of ancient times, illustrating the mining sites of the territory and arrays instruments used by the miners for their extraction activity. Particularly notable is the presence of a reconstruction, in house, of an underground gallery said “discenderia” (miner) equipped with all the commonly used instruments by the miners. Through archives and photographic documentation the museum also has chronicled the consequences of tragedies in the mines as well as the strikes and the struggles to better the miners working conditions. The structure also houses, on the second floor, an interesting exhibition of minerals. The bibliographic and photographic archives are available for consultation only on written request. Guided visits of the museum are undertaken and, on bookings only, so are the chestnut woods and aqueducts (Springs) of Fiora. From 2015 the Mining Museum of Santa Fiora has been a GOOGLE PARTNER together with another 59 worldwide institutions with their collections on Google Arts and Culture: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/partner/museo-delle-miniere-di-mercurio-del-monte-amiata?hl=it

Activities

Guided visits of the museum are undertaken and on bookings only, so are the chestnut woods and aqueducts of Fiora.

Bookshop

Yes

Accessibility disabled

Partially accessible

Schedule

Consult the website www.minieredimercurio.it

Price

From 1 July 2017 with a single ticket you can access 7 museums

Museum	Full ticket *	Reduced ticket **
Exhibition section of Centro Studi D. Lazzaretti (Acidosso)***	€ 5,00	€ 3,00
Art collection of Palazzo Nerucci (Castel del Piano)	€ 5,00	€ 3,00
House Museum of Monticello Amiata (Cinigiano)	€ 5,00	€ 3,00
Ethnographic Museum (Roccalbegna)	€ 5,00	€ 3,00
Mercury Mines Museum (Santa Fiora)	€ 5,00	€ 3,00
Museum of Oil (Seggiano)	€ 5,00	€ 3,00
Mineralogical Museum (Semproniano)	€ 5,00	€ 3,00

* Can only be used for visiting the museum that issued it and has daily validity;
** Can only be used for visiting the museum that issued it and has daily validity;
*** With the same ticket you can also access the museum of the Middle Ages and MACO

a unique ticket is available for visitors throughout the season
and thus until 31/12/2017 for the visit of all the above mentioned museum
facilities under the conditions indicated in the following table.

Unique Ticket of Access to all the museums listed above	FULL	REDUCED
Unique Ticket of Access to all the museums listed above	€ 10,00	€ 5,00

REDUCED: young people under the age of 18,
students under the age of 25, over 65 years,
families and accompanying people with disabilities.

Contacts

Director: Graziella Ciaffarafà
Info and reservations: 328/1113419 0564/977141 -0564/979611
Email: segreteria@pec.minieredimercurio.it
Email: minieredimercurio@gmail.com
Web: www.minieredimercurio.it
Web: www.cm-amiata.gr.it/ambiente_e_territorio/turismo_e_cultura/da_visitare-255_609.html