Musei Civici di Salemi
In the former Jesuit College of Salemi you can visit the sections on sacred art, archaeology, the Risorgimento, the Museum of the Mafia and the ecomuseum of wheat and bread.
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About the museum
The civic museums of Salemi are housed in the former Jesuit College, a building whose construction began in 1628 and was completed in 1739, following a resolution of the town council in 1596 requesting a Jesuit college. The order used it until its expulsion from Sicily in 1767, returned in 1819, and was driven out again by Garibaldi in June 1860. Later the palace served as a hospital and then as a school; the earthquake of 1968 made it largely unusable and it was restored in the 1980s.
In 1982 an agreement between the Curia of Mazara del Vallo and the municipality entrusted to Salemi, on loan and for storage, the works of the churches damaged by the earthquake. This gave rise to the section of sacred art, which occupies four rooms on the ground floor with Renaissance sculptures and Mannerist and Baroque paintings from the churches of the Carmine, Santo Stefano, San Tommaso and the Chiesa Madre; the museum was modernised and reorganised in 2007.
The museum system also includes the archaeology and Risorgimento sections, the Museo della Mafia e Officina della Legalità, the chapel of the Casa Santa di Loreto and the ecomuseum of wheat and bread, as well as the library and the photographic and video collections.
Highlights
- Sacred art section with works from the Renaissance to the Baroque
- Chapel of the Casa Santa di Loreto
- Museo della Mafia e Officina della Legalità
- Archaeology and Risorgimento sections
- Ecomuseum of wheat and bread
Permanent exhibitions
- Arte sacra – Four ground-floor rooms with sculptures, paintings and liturgical furnishings recovered from Salemi’s churches damaged by the 1968 earthquake.
- Museo della Mafia e Officina della Legalità – Section of the museum system devoted to the history of the Mafia and education in legality.
- Archeologia e Risorgimento – Sections devoted to finds from the area and to Risorgimento memorabilia, with the chapel of the Casa Santa di Loreto.
- Operated by
- Comune di Salemi
- Visitors per year
- approx. 3,926
Admission & discounts
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Accessibility
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Kids & families
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