On the ground floor, the visitor comes across a small introductory room on the exploitation of woodland reserves in the Cadore area and is offered a small overview of the tools used to work in the forests until the middle of the 20th century, from the different types of axes to the sledge used to transport logs. It is on the first floor that the heart of the Cidolo and Legname Museum is located: here the itinerary winds its way through maps and documents, historical images, fascinating films granted by the Istituto Luce and objects that tell the story of Perarolo di Cadore from when it was founded as Ponteporto until the advent of the railway, which marked an important turning point in the history of the village and its economy. Great prominence is still given to the treatment and processing of timber in the chain that goes from the forest to the construction of rafts, and here we would like to point out the singular examples of house signs that were affixed to the pieces of timber and the ad hoc instruments used, including the drills used to drill the logs and the rays used by the menadàs to guide their course during free-flowing in the water.
Particular attention, due to the specific nature of the artefact, is paid to the cidolo, the artificial lock that allowed the logs transported by flowing water to be stopped and sorted: Perarolo became ‘the village of the cidolo’, having two of the three cidolo in the Cadore area: the one in Sacco on the Piave river and the other in Carsiè along the Boite stream.