Forms of mobile pastoralism in Europe
Multimedia exhibition
Curated by Luís Costa and Gianfranco Spitilli
Castro Daire Municipal Museum
Castro Daire (Viseu Dão Lafões, Portugal)
Opening: June 19, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.
Campus Transhumance
Schnals / Senales (South Tyrol, Italy)
Opening: June 22, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Transhumance is a cultural expression of great relevance to different mountain cultures which, over many centuries, has generated transregional and cross-border mobility networks associated with the first exchanges between European peoples and cultures. The exhibition “Paths of grass and rock. Forms of mobile pastoralism in Europe,” co-curated by Luís Costa and Gianfranco Spitilli, addresses the vast theme of mobile pastoralism, of which transhumance is a notable example. The exhibition will be presented both at the Gorfer Mill, on the Campus Transhumance in Senales (South Tyrol, Italy), and at the Municipal Museum of Castro Daire (Portugal).
The exhibition is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, through the Municipality of Senales’ PNRR project for the regeneration of small cultural sites, cultural, religious and rural heritage, funded by the European Union’s NextGenerationEU program and it has the collaboration of the Tramontana project, co-financed by Creative Europe, the Caldas da Rainha Higher School of Art and Design (Portugal) and its LiDA research center, the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and its ID+ research center the University of Molise and its research center Biocult, and the PRIN Wildebate project – Coexistence, bio-cultural friction and pastoralism in protected areas, the University of Teramo, the Central Institute of Cataloguing and Documentation of Rome, the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (Romania) and the Digital Itineraries project.
