Museo Guatelli, Ethnographic museum in Ozzano Taro, Italy

The Museo Guatelli is an ethnographic museum housed in a farmhouse and courtyard complex that preserves more than 60,000 objects. These items document handcrafts, work practices, and traditional production methods from past eras.

Ettore Guatelli, a primary-school teacher and self-taught ethnographer, gathered over 60,000 everyday objects from peasant and artisan life in the twentieth century, arranging them throughout his farmhouse at Bellafoglia in Ozzano Taro. In 1983-1985 a convention with the Province of Parma opened the collection to public use and renovation began; a 1986 expert commission gave the first official recognition of its value. Guatelli died on 21 September 2000, and in 2003 the Fondazione Museo Ettore Guatelli was created to conserve and promote his work.

The collection displays everyday items used by rural families across generations, arranged to show the crafts and ways of life that shaped the community. Objects like kitchen tools, work implements, and household goods tell stories about how people lived and what mattered to them.

The museum occupies the Bellafoglia farmstead at Ozzano Taro, a hamlet of Collecchio in the province of Parma. Visitors move through the former farmhouse, granary and courtyard, where objects hang on walls and ceilings along a narrow staircase and balcony. The route is tight and steep in places, so allow time to look closely rather than to walk quickly.

The objects are mounted on walls in geometric patterns, creating an artistic display of everyday items. This unconventional presentation transforms the museum into a kind of installation where form and content are equally important.