Ethnographic Museum “Rupe”

This guide to the Ethnographic Museum Rupe in Dubrovnik starts at the mouth of a stone pit carved into the bedrock beneath the square, one of fifteen shafts cut between the fifteen forties and fifteen nineties. It traces how walled, trade-dependent Ragusa answered the fear of siege and famine with a plaster of animal hair, lime and ash that kept grain dry and cool for years at a stretch. You will hear how long the granary served the republic before it was retired, and what now fills the pits where the grain once sat.