Truffle Museum of the Samminiatesi Hills

The Truffle Museum of the Samminiatesi Hills - MuTart - is located in the heart of San Miniato and tells the story of the land where the world's largest truffles are born.
A bountiful land, unique in the world for the production of the most prized truffle - the white Tuber Magnatum Pico - but which gives away these precious tubers throughout the year.
The visit begins with the reproduction of plants and sylvan noises that accompany on an imaginary journey through the woods of the Samminiatesi Hills.
The space thus recounts, in its small urban forest, the intelligence, the insights, the ability to grasp even the slightest signs of nature, the ancient and ever-renewed gestures of truffle hunting and extraction.
The museum houses faithful reproductions of record truffles, starting with the legendary 1954 truffle found by Bego Gallerini weighing 2,520 g.
The MuTart is part of the San Miniato Integrated Museum System and is a space of valuable iconic-visual, sensory and cultural experiences.
It is precisely in San Miniato that the White Truffle Market-Exhibition has been organized since 1969, and in 1982 the truffle hunters of these hills have founded the Associazione Tartufai delle Colline Samminiatesi (Association of Truffle Hunters of the Samminiatesi Hills), the oldest and largest in Tuscany.