Casa-museo Antonino Uccello
Regional ethno-anthropological museum in an eighteenth-century palace, with Hyblaean peasant life reconstructed by Antonino Uccello.
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About the museum
The house museum grew out of the work of Antonino Uccello (Canicattini Bagni 1922 – Palazzolo Acreide 1979), a poet and scholar of Sicilian popular culture. He returned to Palazzolo Acreide in 1961 after years spent in Lombardy, bought a wing of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Ferla and installed there objects gathered on the Hyblaean plateau, to preserve the memory of a peasant civilisation that was disappearing. The museum opened in 1971 and is today a regional museum.
The route recreates the rooms of rural life: the “casa ri stari”, where daily activities took place, such as baking bread in the wood-fired oven, making ricotta and cheese and weaving on the foot loom; the “casa ri massaria”; the “maiazzè”, the store for provisions and tools; and the olive press, rebuilt on the model of a room already present in the palace.
The collections also include Sicilian ceramics, especially from Caltagirone, wooden spoons and ladles made by peasants, religious objects, ex voto and sacred images, toys, puppets (pupi) and scenery panels from the opera dei pupi, nativity scenes (presepi), wooden sculptures, paintings on glass and wax figurines.
Highlights
- Reconstruction of the “casa ri stari” with oven, loom and tools
- Reconstructed olive press and storeroom (maiazzè)
- Sicilian ceramics, especially from Caltagirone
- Paintings on glass, nativity scenes, puppets and opera dei pupi scenery
- Ex voto and objects of popular devotion
Permanent exhibition
- Museo etnoantropologico della civiltà contadina iblea – Reconstructed rooms of rural life and collections of folk art and traditions gathered by Antonino Uccello.
- Founded
- 1971
- Operated by
- Regione Siciliana – Assessorato dei beni culturali e dell'identità siciliana
- Visitors per year
- approx. 4,440
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €2 |
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| Reduced | €1 |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 17 · Free admission for under 18s (Syracuse tourism portal) |
| Combined ticket for the Casa-museo Uccello and the Akrai archaeological area | €5Valid for 3 days; reduced €2.50. |
Free admission: First Sunday of every month
Prices as listed on the museum's website; free admission for those entitled to it.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | The museum's website offers brochures in English, French and German, as well as the plan and descriptions of the rooms. |
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