Abstract
Founded in 1968 by Giuseppe Šebesta, since 1995 the Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina has promoted a capillary work of coordination of the area’s small
ethnographic museums, including the small hydraulic power factories and some sites that
bear witness to the agro-silvopastoral past, effectively interpreting the specific role that a
museum of supra-local scope has been recognised and theorised by distinguished museographers of the calibre of Georges-Henri Rivière, Roberto Togni, Fredi Drugman and Gaetano Forni. In 2021, as a result of a controversial unilateral decision by the institutional
referent, this almost 30-year commitment was abruptly interrupted.
Keywords: ethnographic museum, territorial networks, Trentino, Giuseppe Šebesta.