At Italy’s Barolo Wine Museum, Visitors are Encouraged to Play with Many of the Exhibits

BAROLO, ITALY (REUTERS.- When you walk up the stairs of the imposing medieval castle which now houses a new wine museum in the picturesque Italian town of Barolo, you don’t need to worry about the prospect of monotonous lectures on the history of winemaking. You are going to have fun, its creator says. “Wine has a quality to bring people together, it has a convivial dimension,” said Francois Confino, the Swiss-born museum and exhibition designer. “The fact of getting a little tipsy provokes something in the mind that makes people feel well together and I hope this is translated here somehow,” he told Reuters at the museum opening. Visitors are encouraged to play with many of the exhibits: peddle a merry-go-round which represents changing seasons or set in motion old-style “teatrini” — mobile doll theatres where scenes related to wine are enacted. Music accompanies visitors as they walk through 25 rooms of the

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