Things to do in Palermo, Sicily: The Best Art Museums

Reservations required!! The museum is open year round for a visit but you must book your visit by email or phone. For reservations just call a few hours before the appointment and agree to the tour. The visits are carried out only in Italian / english.

Palazzo Butera, bought by Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi in 2016 with the aim of creating a versatile center for arts and culture in Palermo, starts a first phase of contact with the city. Cantiere Aperto – which means literally “open building site” – is an initiative that allows the public to visit the area where the renovation works are being completed. The palace is an open laboratory, drawing together history, arts and culture in an interdisciplinary exercise aimed at finding solutions for social development. Open to the city of Palermo and the world beyond, the ground floor will offer a reference library and many galleries for temporary exhibitions from both home and abroad. The first floor contains conference and events rooms. The second floor will accommodate a museum, displaying the Valsecchi art collection. Today most of the renovation has been completed. Only the second floor is still under restoration, but it will be completed in a few months.

Historic building of the fifteenth century, with frescoes and furnishings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It displays around 300 works of art from the 12th to the 19th century in 12 rooms. 11 rooms belong to "Le Stanze dei Vescovi", the noble floor of the Archbishop's Palace, with the Alcova of Cardinal Gravina and the Sala Borremans entirely freshly painted in 1733.

Pizzo Sella Art Village is the new Artistic Village of Palermo, situated on the charming hillside of Pizzo Sella, untouched slope in the countryside, in total harmony with the Sicilian nature. Pizzo Sella Art Village aims to become a favorite destination for artists and "cultural workers" but, at the same time, also a new entertainment area for all family types. If you are an artist book today

Il più antico museo di Sicilia è stato riaperto dal luglio 2016 ed è pronto a svelarvi i suoi tesori. Il piano terra, la parte più rilevante delle collezioni, vi accoglie con un nuovo allestimento: ai grandi capolavori noti, come le famose metope dei Templi selinuntini, definito il più importante complesso scultoreo dell’arte greca d'Occidente, e la "Pietra di Palermo" una stele con iscrizioni geroglifiche di importanza capitale per la ricostruzione della storia dell’antico Egitto, si aggiungono i Decreti di Entella e i meravigliosi gioielli provenienti da Tindari, solo per citarne alcuni. Nel marzo 2018 è stato inaugurata l'Agorà, nuovo spazio espositivo dove ammirate le monumentali sculture del tempio della Vittoria di Himera e l’imponente frontone con la Medusa del tempio C di Selinunte. Spazio polifunzionale, piazza ideale di aggregazione e produzione culturale, luogo in cui s'incontrano "le storie di tutti noi".