Museo ibleo delle arti e tradizioni popolari "Serafino Amabile Guastella"

Museum in Modica that reconstructs craft workshops and a rural house of the County of Modica, open to the public since 1978.

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About the museum

The museum was opened to the public in 1978 by the cultural association “Serafino Amabile Guastella” and reconstructs, with great attention to detail, the craft and peasant environment of the County of Modica. It holds a heritage of original tools, furnishings and household objects that the Modican tradition regards as a symbol of its identity.

Visitors walk through the reconstructed workshops of the carpenter, tinsmith, barber, plate mender, confectioner, saddler, rope-maker, basket-maker, tailor, stonemason, quarry worker, shoemaker, blacksmith, cartwright and beekeeper. The route is completed by the reconstruction of a typical rural dwelling, the “massaria”. The objects belong to the association and are protected by an ethno-anthropological restriction, established by decree no. 7121 of 6 July 1996 of the regional department for cultural heritage.

Highlights

Reconstructed craft workshops (carpenter, blacksmith, shoemaker, tailor and others)
Reconstruction of a typical rural house, the “massaria”
Original tools, furnishings and household objects of the County of Modica
Collection protected by an ethno-anthropological restriction

Permanent exhibition

Botteghe artigiane e casa rurale – Reconstructed workshops of fifteen traditional crafts and a typical rural house of the County of Modica.

Founded: 1978
Operated by: Associazione culturale "Serafino Amabile Guastella"