Museo etno-antropologico delle Madonie

About the museum

The museum is housed in the former convent of the Capuchin Fathers, a 17th-century building in the hamlet of Zafarana, in Geraci Siculo. The collection was started in 1983 and the museum was officially established in 1985; it is run by the Comune.

The collections document life and work in the Madonie: tools and household objects of the agro-pastoral economy, products of the traditional craft and folk art of the area, along with the traditional cycles of work. A particularly notable piece is the series of architectural fragments made by the stonemasons of the Madonie.

Among the items kept in the building are a 19th-century wax funeral mask, the Transfiguration by Giuseppe Di Garbo dated 1794, a canvas of the “Mater Salvatoris” attributed to a 16th-century Flemish painter, and the historic library of the Capuchins with over one thousand five hundred volumes.

Highlights

• Tools and objects of the agro-pastoral economy of the Madonie
• Architectural fragments by the stonemasons of the Madonie
• Transfiguration by Giuseppe Di Garbo (1794)
• Seat in the former 17th-century Capuchin convent

Permanent exhibition

• Collezioni etnoantropologiche delle Madonie – Agricultural and pastoral tools, household objects and craft products of the Madonie, with architectural fragments by the stonemasons of the Madonie.

Founded

1985

Operated by

Comune di Geraci Siculo

Visitors per year

approx. 1,440

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