Small Great War Museum of Sappada

At the beginning of the route leading to the Mühlbach waterfalls in Sappada stands the Small Great War Museum, which allows visitors to discover wartime experience and everyday life on the Dolomite front.

It is an exhibition of memorabilia curated by Emanuele Pachner and Francesco Pomarè, housed in a building that was once an old forge and municipal slaughterhouse, now decorated with a mural depicting a war scene.

The selection of finds recovered in the surrounding area helps visitors understand the hardships that soldiers had to face every day, due not only to combat but also to the harsh climate, up to the final desperate attempts at resistance before the Caporetto retreat. The exhibition also briefly recounts the key episodes of mountain warfare, with due remembrance of the women porters of Sappada and of the dark days of the Austro-German occupation.