The Luigi Manzoni Museum is dedicated to the illustrious scientist, first professor and then dean of the Enological School of Conegliano, who, thanks to his research in the oenological and genetics fields, became famous for having created the renowned wines that still carry his first name. The famous Incroci Manzoni (among which we remember the Bianco 6.0.13, fruit of the crossing of Riesling Ramato and Pinot Bianco) were born in order to create more resistant vineyards, without having to give up the personality of a great wine.
Inside the rooms of the museum it is possible to take a journey through his works, admiring the instruments that he himself created and used during his research, such as botanical and scientific collections, cameras and microscopes from the early 1900s, original slides, historical documents and manuscripts. The professor, aware of the limitations of the drawings used up to that time for the documentation in the botanical field, planned to combine photography with science, thus creating a more advanced instrumentation suitable for his studies; a leap forward for the naturalistic studies of the time, which, combined with those of viticultural genetics, later led to the achievement of the goal pursued by the professor: to see new crossings made.
