The Optical and Eyewear Museum

The Museo dell’Occhiale was set up to collect, study and protect objects, images and sources - both oral and written - relating to the history of eyewear and other optical instruments in their various forms and to illustrate the history of reading glasses industry and its offshoots in the province of Belluno.
The promotion of this heritage and its educative role, in historical and cultural terms, is another important objective of this cultural institution.
The desire of the members of the Fondazione Museo dell’Occhiale and of Pieve di Cadore town council to provide a more suitable location for this important collection of objects and documents led to the setting up in August 2007 of the new Museo dell’Occhiale in the Cos.Mo building in Pieve di Cadore.