Among the first in Italy to be dedicated to emigration, the museum collects around 400 specimens, including photographs, documents and objects, arranged in 12 sections which tell the many aspects of the lâ pal mont (in Friulian "going around the world") and which present an important picture of the migratory flows and destinations of workers from western Friuli in the first decades of the last century.

The chronological division of the exhibition itinerary, curated by Javier P. Grossutti, is supported and integrated by the presentation of some particular migratory typologies, such as that linked to the professionalism and trades present in the Friulian Alpine and pre-Alpine areas. Mosaic artists and terrazzo workers, to cite just one case, were in the foothill countries the expression of a working tradition that in many foreign markets, from France to the United States, from the United Kingdom, Germany and Holland to Australia and South Africa 'taxes without competitors. Other professions, some of which matured entirely in emigration, such as that of stonemasons and sleeper squarers, also offered opportunities for success and redemption.

A room of the Museum is dedicated to the permanent exhibition of graphic works and documents from the Cavasso School of Drawing, active from the 1920s to the 1950s. Belonging to the master Ernesto Calligaro, the graphic creations, the so-called "tables", are testimony to the training path undertaken by many people to learn the most varied professions (carpenter, blacksmith, bricklayer, mosaicist, terrazzo worker, tiler, sleeper squarer, woodcutter , butcher, cutler and labourer), and then moved to work abroad.

The Museum is managed by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region through ERPAC - Regional Body for Cultural Heritage in collaboration with the Municipality of Cavasso Nuovo (PN).