MUVA – Museum of the Adda Valley
MUVA – Museum of the Adda Valley is a place where nature, history, and technology come together.
Housed in Villa Gina in Trezzo sull’Adda, it consists of five rooms and offers a complete journey through the history, nature, and geography of the Park.
The museum tells the story of the river and its territory through interactive experiences and immersive installations. Here, visitors are invited on a journey that blends curiosity and knowledge, designed to engage both the senses and the mind.
As soon as you step inside, you are greeted by elements that both intrigue and welcome you, such as the large golden fish suspended in the air—a symbol of the bond with water and the fauna of the Adda. Bright, open spaces host multimedia stations and interactive tables that allow visitors to explore the territory, discovering the river’s meanders and the environmental features that make it unique.
MUVA is also a living museum, in constant dialogue with the surrounding landscape: through 3D models, aerial footage, and evocative images, it takes visitors along the course of the river, revealing hidden views and details invisible to the naked eye. Some installations even allow you to “touch” the territory, such as scale models that reproduce stretches of the Adda and illustrated panels that tell the story of local biodiversity.
It is a six-meter-long sensitive map of the Park’s territory.
The map surface recognizes the position of a pointer that visitors place on predetermined points of interest. The interaction with the map is completely intuitive.
When a point is selected by placing the pointer, original video content is played, illustrating the natural value, history, or architecture of that location.
The river’s path has also been designed to be touched, allowing visually impaired visitors to follow it as well.
Each sensitive point, highlighted on the map, is described through a video available in two languages.
Unpublished images from private collections and family albums bear witness to the passage of time and to the unique features of these places.
Five transparent thematic sheets, each to be placed over specific areas of the maps on the tables, activate extra content and help reveal events and geographies that might otherwise remain hidden in the folds of history.*
In continuity with the map room, you will find a glimpse of the environment inside a weaving plant from the early 20th century.
It is a wall that recalls the exterior of a factory. There, through two cracks between the bricks, accompanied by the sounds of the machines, you can catch a glimpse of what life inside the factory was like, along with sample data on the productions of that era.
Another room takes you to a close-up view of the wetland environment.
All the footage was shot in the Brivio Marsh, both above and below the water.
The Naturalist’s Study features an interactive table at its center, representing the scientist’s mind—his ability to interpret the world by reading its signs and connections.
The table contains a large screen and a system that recognizes the objects placed on it.
All the objects in the room are identified and explained by the table. Visitors are encouraged to pick them up, touch them, move them, and let the table tell their story.
The interactive table, which we have called The Naturalist’s Mind, also serves as the interpretation tool for the virtual river aquarium, showcasing twenty species of fish found in these waters.
