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The museum is located in a beautiful building, formerly the municipal offices and school, overlooking Piazza della Repubblica, a few steps from the village church. It provides a beautiful and complete insight into the mountain farming civilisation that Gurro experienced in past centuries and tells the story of the Cannobina Valley and the valley's twinning with the Scottish Gayre clan through an itinerary.
The catalogue of objects kept in the Gurro museum is around 1,300 articles and is still growing today, thanks to the contributions of many enthusiasts.
There have also been books published that collect evidence of the daily life, religiosity and history of the Cannobina Valley.
In the atrium, on the ground floor, we are presented with tools from a time long gone: sledges used in winter to transport the stones used to build houses, two wagon wheels, the wheel of a mill where cereals were crushed, a scale for weighing sacks of flour, a copper pot.
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On the first floor there are some captured and stuffed birds of prey that testify to the presence of these birds throughout the valley; and a reconstruction of a typical 19th century kitchen and bedroom.In the window, handmade net curtains can be admired: on the previously created net, a pattern is embroidered in darning stitch.
On the second floor you enter the costume room of the Cannobina Valley. In a glass case are the costumes of Gurro, Cursolo, Orasso, Socraggio, Falmenta and Spoccia.On this floor there is a mannequin dressed as a Scotsman to recall the Scottish origins of Gurro. Also inside the room there is the 1973 Scottish adoption notice of the Gayre clan addressed to the village of Gurro.One of the most important objects is the sheet in which San Carlo rested during his pastoral visit in 1574, which has over time been cut into several pieces and used as a relic to heal the sick.Also displayed on the walls are the heraldic coats of arms of the Gurro families (Porta, Mazza, Dresti, Bergamaschi, Patritti) together with the coat of arms of the municipality, drawn on stone blocks.
The third floor offers a large and refined collection of work tools and household utensils from several decades ago used by the valley people, especially for wool and hemp processing.
On 1 May 2012, the museum was again inaugurated.After 35 years since the 1977 when it was opened to the public, the municipality and the valuable volunteers "have done their best to give the museum an appearance that goes far beyond the 'decorous poverty' that had characterised it until now, to make it welcoming, bright and even, in some places, refined," said director Adolfo Nicolussi Rossi.
