Luogo - Museum
Museo Etnico Arbëreshë
Where
Piazza Municipio, 9, Civita (Cosenza)
Founded in 1989, the Museum contains several examples of the local rural culture, in particular the community of Albanian tradition. The Museum is on two floors and consists of four rooms: Room Hospitality Exhibition, Hall of Frame, Hall of Totem, the Costume Room. The exhibition includes Albanians costumes, a collection of photographs and testimonies on the countries of ethnicity Arbëreshë in Italy, an iconographic collection on Byzantine rites and a library of Albanians texts. Of note, an icon of the Madonna Odigitria and the notes of a storyteller about the History of Skanderbeg.
