Lemme extend Barb's salutary reminder to all lurkers: before asking "What's there to see?", make sure you know what you're interested in!

For example, if you're interested in what's in them,

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"There are several museums in Perugia . . . not large ones . . . they wouldn't take hours and hours"

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Oh yes they would, too. Both the Umbria National Art Museum and the Archaeological Museum at S. Domenico can easily occupy a whole day, if you're interested — and if you're not interested, of course, why go at all.

On the Enoteca in Spello, I can personally confirm the knowledge and hospitality of the brothers who own it; but all the larger towns, and most of the smaller towns that, like Spello, are heavily touristed, have several such places: as indeed does Spello. Pricewise, by the way, the only place I'd beware of is "Hispellum".

Collegio del Cambio: a museum I'd never heard of! I wonder how many more there are. (I'm not big on museums, and Perugia is chock-a-block full of stuff, so'm none too surprised.)

Trevi Oil Museum: It bills itself as the only museum of Olives in Italy; its official name is the Museo della Civiltà dell' Olio, and the best webpage starts here at Pro Trevi. (The subpage is ill-designed by my lights: the opening schedule is just the splash page, as it were; follow the link "MUSEO DELLA CIVILTÀ DELL'OLIVO" and you'll get a full page of other info. I'll be translating that page into English and adapting it soon, either on Pro Trevi's site or on my own.)
   From personal experience, however, it's a bit on the dull side. There's a well-done educational room, mind you, taking you step by step thru the planting, harvesting, and processing of olives; there's some interesting artifacts of the olive industry: old presses, etc. although those are quite poorly labeled, and only became interesting to a point because I had my friend Franco with me explaining it all: for years he was on the board of one of the coöperatives. But the space is sterile and awkwardly carved out of the main museum, and — as Franco himself pointed out to me, not helped by the museum's mascot being dead: at great expense they arranged to have a live olive tree growing inside the museum under a skylight, a sort of modern tempietto to the Olive — but they removed it or it died or something — the circular vat full of stones still there, however, and (a few) visitors think it's meant as a trash can. . . .
   This isn't to knock the Museo S. Francesco as a whole, which isn't bad, and the art part of which is definitely worth some time. The attached Gothic church of S. Francesco, completely torn up this past spring, is being put back together again: in the meantime, in the jackhammered rubble of the church's pavement they found a Roman inscription more interesting than most.
   (Final caveat for lurkers: you should not be confusing the Museo S. Francesco in my little report with the Museo S. Francesco in neighboring Montefalco. There too, a secularized Gothic church and an attached museum: the actual museum in Montefalco is far less interesting than the one in Trevi, even if more Roman stuff; but the church is far better than Trevi's, with the Benozzo Gozzoli frescoes of the life of St. Francis, and a Perugino, and some other good paint in it. The two museums collaborate: this year they issued a joint card entitling you to visit both, as well as the Madonna delle Lacrime in Trevi with one more Perugino.)