The milk museum of Farra di Mel was born from an idea of the former members and the association CRAL Farrese to preserve a part of the rural and peasant history of the Belluno Valley, where from the end of 1800, in almost all the hamlets, social structures and cooperatives for the production and processing of milk were born.
The company of the Farra Dairy began in 1891, in a location that did not have ownership and was located in a private house. In 1907 was found the land where the new dairy will be built and now it's the base of the Museum.
The dairy remained in operation until 1973, when the processing of milk became industrial and all small village companies were incorporated into large dairies. The Farra dairy will remain open only for milk collection until the 1990s. Inside the Museum, located in the main hall, have been preserved and restored all the tools and machinery used at the time for the processing of dairy products, the historical archive of paper documents and a collection of molds for butter including the mold of the dairy of Seian (also located in Farra) which testifies to the presence of a small dairy already before 1891 over the oral evidence.
