The Craveri Civic Museum is the most important Natural History museum in the province of Cuneo and was founded in the 19th century as the private collection of lawyer Angelo Craveri. He inherited his passion from a friend, a famous naturalist and founder of the Zoological Museum of the University of Turin. However, it was his sons, moved by the same passion, who greatly increased this collection, leading to the Palace being enlarged in 1843 and 1861. Since the 1890s it has belonged to the Municipality of Bra.
The Archaeological Museum, originally housed in Palazzo Craveri as it did not have its own premises, was inaugurated in the present Palazzo Traversa in 1991, a Late Gothic building probably built by the Malabaila family in the 15th century. The Museum preserves the original archaeological section of Roman Pollentia and some later finds from the late antique and medieval periods. Artistic and historical sections with works of art and elements of local collections have been added to the museum's holdings.
The Museo del Giocattolo (Toy Museum) is located in the "G. Arpino" Polyfunctional Centre and houses a collection of more than 1,000 toys dating from the end of the eighteenth century to the second half of the twentieth century owned by Michele Chiesa, an antiquary from Bra. The collection, born out of passion, has been enriched over the years with industrial, handcrafted and family/popular toys particularly linked to the history of play and, given the great interest shown, it was granted to the citizenship of Bra in 2007.
