Museo Etnografico 'G. Pitrè'
Into the museological arrangement by architect Antonio Di Lorenzo, in Palazzo Tarallo there are temporary and permanent exhibitions, which have as their object particular aspects of culture and popular traditions. The permanent exhibition is housed in the rooms of the main floor, among which is the large hall frescoed by Pietro Martorana, which contains a beautiful seventeenth-century bed with wrought iron headboard. Here it will be organized cultural events and book signings. In the other six rooms on the first floor were placed two elegant sedan-chairs and some eighteenth-century artifacts from the Museum with aristocratic taste and cultured patrons, although made in the same workshops from which come the works of most popular use; among them, some painted furniture, the end of '700, from the former National Museum (now the Regional Archaeological Museum "Antonio Salinas"): a dresser, a closet, a cabinet-altar, a scarabattolo and two display cases. Although from different backgrounds, they have some homogeneous traits: they belong to the eighteenth century, are made by Sicilian manufacturing and are all painted. The craftsmen who realized them had as reference model the furnitures and the chinoiserie belonging to the aristocracy.
