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The
civic museum of Buscemi, founded by volunteers in 1988, is far from
being a typical “container” museum. Its aim is rediscovering and
preserving traditional cultural heritage, in order to improve social
consciousness. For this reason during these last years a lot of
cultural events have been organized in cooperation with the
“Casa-Museo Antonino Uccello” in Palazzolo Acreide and
other museum linked by the iblean ethnographical museums’ net .
Further schools, students and local community have been involved in
didactic activities.
The museum is now managed
by the Comune of Buscemi and the “Association for the Preservation
of the Iblean Rural Culture”, since November 2007.
It has ten museal units:
a casa ro massaru, the farmer’s house; u
parmientu, the wine press; a putia ro firraru,
the blacksmith’s shop; a casa ro iurnataru, the
agricultural day-labourer’s house; a putia ro quarararu,
the tinker’s shop; a putia ro falignami, the
carpenter’s shop; u trappitu, the olive-press; a
putia ro scarparu e r’appuntapiatti, the shoemaker and
dish-repairer’s shop; the Saint Lucia water-mill; furthermore
there is a didactic laboratory with sections dedicated to the
wheat cycle, stonecutters in Val di Noto and popular art.
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 “A
casa ro massaru”.
The house of the farmer is the typical middle-class house of
the peasant class. The interior consists of four...
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 “Il
palmento”.
The wine
press is the place where the grapes were pressed; it dates
back to the early nineteen century and when it was rented,
it was covered by...
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 “A
putia ro firraru” .The
blacksmith’s shop is located in an artificial cave, probably
once a christian “hypogeum”...
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 “A
casa ro iurnataru”.
Inhabited by six people up to the Sixties, the
agricultural day-labourer’s house is a room of just 12
square metres. It is a meaningful proof of...
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 “A
putia ro quarararu”.
The tinker’s shop is next to the day-labourer’s house and
contains some tools belonging to a shop located...
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 “A
putia ro falignami”.
The carpenter’s shop displays
what has been recovered in Palazzolo Acreide, another
close-by town. It is in a courtyard below...
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 “U
trappitu”.
This is an exceptional building, dug out of a
cliff. It was an ancient place of worship going back to
Byzantine times and ...
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 “A
putia ro scarparu”.
The shoemaker’s shop has become part of the
museum after the death of the owner, the last shoemaker
in...
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 The
"putia ro scarparu"place also displays the tools used by the
dish-repairer (u rappuntapiatti) and some
objects mended by him...
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 “Il
ciclo del grano”. A stall has been used to display
all the tools and objects used for the work related to the
“cycle of the grain”. In a space with...
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 Didactic
laboratory.
This is the
place where students and visitors can take part in workshops
on grain grinding and bread making, using...
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 Popular
art section
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 “U
mulinu”.
The itinerary also includes the St. Lucia
watermill, in the area of Palazzolo called “the watermill
valley”, 10 Km. far from Buscemi. It is one of the four
water-mills started...
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