Casa Tomé

Casa Tomé embodies over 650 years of local history. This modest stone house, with two floors, with stable and barn attached, has remained virtually unchanged over the centuries. Since the mid-eighteenth century, it has not undergone substantial transformations: some minimal changes, but no modernization intervention, so much so that heating and toilets have never been installed. Only cold water and the electric stove in the kitchen and the light in the stüe and in the stable.

The house has always reflected the modest needs and possibilities of the families who lived there, including those of the last owners, the Tomé family. The sisters Luigia and Marina lived there until 1990. In 2002 it was purchased by the Fondazione Ente Museo Poschiavino.

In 2007 it was opened to the public as a second museum, next to the Palazzo de Bassus-Mengotti. The two faces of the Poschiavo society: on the one hand the rural reality that has characterized life in the valley until the last decades of the nineteenth century and on the other the fate of a few wealthy families who have contributed to shaping the fate of the political, social and cultural life of Valposchiavo.