Tona’s House - St Peter's Ethnological Collection

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Etnološka zbirka Tonina hiša v Sv Petru

Sveti Peter, SI-6330 Piran-Pirano

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Phone386 (0) 5 671 0040

ProprietorSergej Mašera Maritime Museum, Piran

Flavio Bonin, Acting Director

flavio.bonin@pommuz-pi.si

The farmhouse at St Peter - known by the locals as Tona's House - is a unique ethnological monument. It has been restored in period style, preserving the characteristic Istrian rural architecture and illustrating the byegone lifestyle of Istrian farmers through demonstrations of oil making on the ground floor and displays of domestic artefacts in the rural kitchen and bedroom on the upper floor. Tona's House also incorporates a former outhouse, which is today used as a washroom and depository for various ethnological tools and implements. Surrounding olive and mulberry trees - the latter very old indeed - only complement the image of a original rural home in Istria.

Over the past two centuries the type of oilery presented at Tona's House was prevalent all over Istria. The rural kitchen and bedroom are not a true copy of such rooms in a certain historical period, but they do contain objects, equipment and furnishings used in former centuries and in the first half of the 20th century, when life by the fireside was still the norm. Various ornamental textile articles, including embroidered tablecloths, curtains and bedspreads, were still made at home during the 19th century, and it is known that after World War I embroidery courses were attended by village girls.