The museum was founded thanks to the intuition and the impressive quantity of materials and documents left by Peter Loporcaro, called the Wolf of the Murgia. The ethnographic collection is divided into sections for crafts, with objects and working tools used by shepherds, farmers, tailors, butchers, cobblers, blacksmiths, carpenters, merchants, winemakers and bakers. Inside the museum there is also the reconstruction of a home environment of the early 20th century.