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Top 10 Ethnographic Museums

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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Casa Museo di Antonino Uccello, Palazzolo Acreide

Among the exhibits of Sicilian tradition here are puppets, decorated carts and work room and living quarters of a peasant home (see Casa-Museo di Antonino Uccello, Palazzolo Acreide).
4. 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.
5. Centro Documentazione della Vita Popolare Iblea

The centre preserves 120 hours of film and 6,000 prints documenting work in the fields and agricultural life.
6. I Luogi del Lavoro Contadino, Buscemi

This tiny village is now a living museum, where eight work rooms and living spaces have been faithfully preserved. They include the home of a peasant farmer, a smithy, olive press and a mill.
7. U parmientu, Buscemi

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

The olive press is housed in a space hewn out of the rock.
9. A casa ro massaru, Buscemi

The peasant farmer’s home has a kitchen complete with wood-burning stove.
10. A casa ro iurnataru, Buscemi

The day labourer’s house is a poorly furnished space of 12 sq m (130 sq ft). It was inhabited by six people until the 1960s, illustrating social conditions of the Sicilian countryside.