DK Travel : Sicily : Museums & Galleries

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Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”, Syracuse

One of the most important archaeological museums in Sicily documents the ancient cultures and civilizations of both the city of Syracuse and eastern Sicily (see Archaeology Museum Highlights).
Museo del Macino del Grano, Palazzolo Acreide

An antique water-powered grain mill has been restored and put back into action, complete with the mill stones that grind wheat into flour for bread and pasta.
Museo delle Saline, Trapani

Housed in a restored windmill, exhibits here trace each fascinating stage of traditional salt-making, from filling the salt pans with sea water, to evaporation, recovering, storing, cleaning and grinding the salt (see Saline, Salt Pans).
Museo Iblea delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari SA Guastella, Modica

Here, rooms from a peasant’s home, artisans’ workshops and laboratories are faithfully recreated. See typical workshops of the blacksmith, basketmaker, shoemaker, cartmaker, and a complete pastry workshop with original utensils.
Museo Regionale Agostino Pepoli, Trapani

The museum, housed in a 17th-century former monastery, is known for its extensive collection of decorative arts spanning from the 1600s to the 1800s, and includes coral pieces, jewellery and Nativity scene figurines.
Museo Regionale Archeologico, Agrigento

Extensive collections of archaeo-logical finds from Agrigento and related cities reveal the Bronze Age through to Hellenization and the Roman age (see Archaeological Museum Exhibits).
Museo Regionale di Messina

This museum is home to architectural, sculptural and decorative fragments recovered from Messina’s churches after the 1908 earthquake, as well as paintings and sculpture. Highlights include two works painted by Caravaggio during his stay in Messina in 1608–09: The Raising of Lazarus and The Adoration of the Shepherds with dramatically lit, monumental figures.
U parmientu, Buscemi

The grape press here has intricate workings handmade in wood and stone.
U trappitu, Buscemi

The olive press is housed in a space hewn out of the rock.
Villa-Museo Cozzu zu Cola, Floridia

Materials here have been collected from masserie (farmer’s homes) throughout the Iblean countryside. They include mills for wheat and olives, looms and a large collection of handmade tools.