Riapertura dei musei di Castelbuono - Castelbuono (PA)
Dal: 18-05-2021 Al: 31-12-2021
Tuesday 18 May 2021
Reopening of the Castelbuono museums to citizens and the public:
Civic Museum, Naturalistic Museum “F.M. Palumbo ", Clock Tower Museum
Based on recent provisions and on the occasion of the International Museum Day promoted by ICOM (International Council of Museums) which this year has as its theme 'The future of museums: regenerating and reinventing themselves' to invite museums to imagine and share new practices of (co) creation of values, new business models for cultural institutions and innovative solutions for the social, economic and environmental challenges of the present, we are pleased to announce that from Tuesday 18 May 2021 the Civic Museum (Castello dei Ventimiglia) will reopen to the public, the “Francesco Minà Palumbo” Naturalistic Museum and the Clock Tower Museum, cultural institutions of the Municipality of Castelbuono. The public will be welcomed safely and in compliance with anti-Covid 19 regulations.
Access to museums is possible with a mask, respecting the physical spacing of at least one meter, body temperature will be measured at the entrance, finally, it is mandatory to sanitize the hands in and out (through the special dispensers placed at the inside the museum structures).
At the Civic Museum of Castelbuono, in addition to the collections of archeology, sacred art and modern and contemporary art, it is possible to visit the exhibition "The room of Wonders", a sort of contemporary wunderkammer, and the Palatine Chapel with stuccoes on a background of the Bottega dei Serpotta (1684).
At the Naturalistic Museum there is the Herbarium collection of the Museum which includes about 7000 dried leaves preserved in large binders, and the paleontological, malacological, entomological collections of ancient tools and prehistoric finds, as well as relics, publications, the library of Francesco Minà Palumbo, naturalist, researcher, scientist (1814-1899) who dedicated his life to cataloging the immense natural heritage of the Madonie.
At the Museum of the Clock Tower, which is located in the building of the first half of the seventeenth century overlooking the central Piazza Margherita, there is an ancient mechanical clock in perfect working order, made in 1885 by the renowned company Isidoro Sommaruga of Milan, whose laboratories are located in via Solferino they stopped working in 1912. An important company that managed to win the bronze medal at the Universal Expo in Paris in 1878.
The museums are open from Tuesday 18 May at the following times:
Civic Museum of Castelbuono:
Tuesday to Sunday: 10-13.15 | 14.45-18.00
Last admission 15 minutes before closing time.
Tickets: full € 5.00
reduced € 3.00 (adults over 65 and children aged 8 to 18, school groups and groups over 12 people, Touring club members, other agreements)
reduced € 2.00 residents and born in Castelbuono, other agreements
Free for children up to 7 years of age, disabled people with accompanying teachers and tour guides accompanying groups, students of the Faculty of Art and Architecture, ICOM members, accredited journalists
Contacts:
Piazza Castello snc
+39 0921.671211
info@museocivico.eu
ticketetteria@museocivico.eu
Naturalistic Museum Francesco Minà Palumbo:
from Tuesday to Sunday 9.00-13.00 / 15.00-19.00
Contacts:
Piazza S. Francesco, 3,
90013, Castelbuono, PA
+39 0921 677174
museonaturalistico@comune.castelbuono.pa.it
Clock Tower Museum:
from Tuesday to Sunday 10.00-13.30 / 15.30-19.00
Contacts:
Piazza Margherita former Bank of the Court
90013, Castelbuono, PA
+39 0921 679084
info@centropoliscastelbuono.it
