Location: Bagheria
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What to do and see in Bagheria, Sicily: The Best Museums
Bagheria (Italian pronunciation: [baɡeˈriːa]; Sicilian: Baarìa) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in Sicily, Italy.
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1. Drago Artecontemporanea
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5.0 based on 28 reviews
2. Museo dell'Acciuga
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5.0 based on 301 reviews
A Museum that narrates the history of Anchovy, from the legend to present days, through ancient documents, tools used for fishing and salting.
Reviewed By rosannabalistreri - San Diego, United States
If you happen to be near Aspra, you cannot miss to visit the Museo delle acciughe (museum of anchovies). The props that recreate a snapshot of life in Sicily as a fisherman, the stories explained by the savvy and witty Michelangelo Balistreri together with his way of singing you through every corner of the museum with local poetry in Sicilian dialect make it all a unique and extraordinary experience. I don’t want to give you any spoilers, but if you are familiar with some of the best Sicilia cinematography, I promise you will live an emotional moment in one particular room - I know I did! Michelangelo will win you over with his incredible knowledge of facts and history paired with an outstanding sense of humor.
3. Museo del Giocattolo e delle Cere Pietro Piraino
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4.5 based on 21 reviews
Museo demo-etno-antropologico allocato all'interno della "Certosa di Villa Butera" splendida costruzione settecentesca con affreschi del Velasco. Il Museo espone una collezione di 2000 giocattoli che vanno dal II° sec. A.C agli anni 60 e una collezione di cere opera dei maestri ceroplasta siciliani e campani dei secoli scorsi.Il Museo si è dotato anche di un salone per convegni, concerti e manifestazioni collaterali, di un laboratorio per i restauri di giocattoli, dipinti, presepi e cere, di un book shop specializzato, di un angolo ristoro , di una biblioteca e di un ampio giardino. Il Museo agisce sotto l'egida del Ministero dei Beni Culturali e della Soprintendenza regionale
4. Villa Sant’Isidoro De Cordova
5. Museo Guttuso
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4.0 based on 216 reviews
Reviewed By Jazzumbo - Campulung, Romania
Renato Guttuso is the most important Sicilian painter and one of the most important Italian artists of XX century. As he was born in Bagheria, he donated to his hometown many of his works. At Villa Cattolica are exhibited some of his early paintings, the portrait of his father and some of his friends, the portrait of Graziella, next to a cactus and the famous self-portrait with his wife, Mimise, near a still life with oranges. The last masterpiece of Guttuso (Nella stanza le donne vanno e vengano), which is unfinished, is also exposed here. In addition to Guttuso's canvas, some works of other famous Italian painters of ”Novecento” are on display as well. Guttuso is one of my favorite painters, so I rate 5 out of 5 any museum that display some of his paintings. However, this museum still needs some improvements. The toilet is located outside the building, so if you need to go to the toilet, you need to interrupt your visit and exit the villa, informing the museum attendants that you need to go to the ”bagno” and come back to continue the tour. That's quite unpleasant. The bookshop is very poor and they accept cash only (in 2020!). The English skills of the museum attendants seem to be quite limited, therefore speaking Italian is a great advantage. Anyway, if you like Guttuso, this museum is not to be missed.
6. Galleria Adalberto Catanzaro
The Adalberto Catanzaro artecontemporanea gallery is an exhibition space that is born in the eighteenth century Villa Casaurro then moved into a building in the heart of the old town of Bagheria; the same land that gave birth to Renato Guttuso, Giuseppe Tornatore, Ignazio Buttitta and Ferdinando Scianna. The exhibition space was founded in 2014 by the passion for contemporary art of its founder and current artistic director, Adalberto Catanzaro which from the beginning was aimed to consolidate the image of the latter, dedicated to the promotion of cultural exhibitions with artists renowned for engaging an audience of more and more demanding users. Through numerous meetings, institutional exhibitions, fairs, conferences, one can understand the energy and desire to succeed the latter distinguished by dynamism, quality, professionalism, elegance and continuous research of important known artists, who made art history.
