CAMPLI
National Archaeological Museum of Abruzzo
Piazza
S. Francesco Tel.fax (+39)0861/569158 Museum Hours: Every day, from
June to December, from 8:30 to 1130am and from 3:30 to 7:30 pm.
Ticket price: free admittance
The
Museo Archeologico Nazionale , set up according to the most modern
museum guidelines in the ex-Monastery of San Francesco, houses finds
from the necropolis of nearby Campovalano where more than 600 tombs
have been discovered, including ditches and tumulus graves. In the
museum's various sections you can admire funereal objects, archaeological
and faunal remains dating back to the mid and late Bronze Age (16th-12th
century B.C.), adult male and children's graves dating back between
the 10th and 2nd centuries B:C., some female graves and several
tombs dating back to the last stage of the necropolis (4th-2nd century
B.C.) There is also an audiovisual room where films regarding the
museum are shown.
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CASTELLI
Ceramics Museum
Via
del Convento Tel. (+39)0861.979398 -Fax (+39)0861.979225 Hours:
Open every day except Monday. In the summer from 10am to 7pm and
in the winter from 10am to 1pm. Ticket price: £5.000 (2,58 euro-full
price), £4.000 (2,06 euro-reduced rate).
The
former Franciscan monastery completed in 1696 now houses the ceramics
museum which includes the town collection assembled by Giancarlo
Polidori in 1934 and all the works donated over the years by residents
of Castelli. Numerous works, spanning from the High Middle Ages
to today, are exhibited in various sections of the two story museum.
Notable works include the "Madonna che allatta il Bambino"(Madonna
nursing the child) by Orazio Pompei (16th-century) the baroque production
of Carlo Antonio Grue, the works by Francesco, Anastasio, Aurelio,
Liborio, Francesco Saverio, Nicola Tommaso, all part of the Grue
dynasty as well as the Gentili, Cappelletti and Fuina families.
On the ground floor there is a separate archaeological section.
CASTELLI
International Collection of Contemporary
Ceramic Art
Via
del Convento, 1 Tel. (+39)0861.979126 - Fax (+39)0861.970656 Hours:
8.30 a.m. to 1p.m. (Mon.-Sat.)
Only
prearranged visits in the afternoon, on Sundays and holidays. Free
admittance The museum boasts a collection of ceramic art by contemporary
artists from all over the world. It is housed in the "F.A. Grue"
State Art Institute, a school which looks to the future while maintaining
close ties with its past experiences and traditions. The school
also houses the "Presepe monumentale" (Monumental Nativity Scene)
which includes approximately 60 life-sized ceramic statues made
by students at the school between 1965 and 1975.
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CASTILENTI
I.R.E.A. MUNICIPAL MUSEUM (Regional Institute of Ethnomusicology
of the Abruzzo)
Palazzo
De Sterlich Not yet open to the public
In
spite of noteworthy efforts and achievements in Abruzzo ethnomusicology
research over the past years, all the documentation of audiovisual
sources had remained private property, mainly for lack of a centralized
institution. There have also been numerous problems regarding the
availability of rare published documents (books, records, CDs and
videos) since they were not organized in a single thematic collection.
The I.R.E.A. Museum of Castilenti was founded not only to solve
these kinds of problems but also in order to recover, catalogue
and diffuse traditional music. This is an enormous heritage, passed
on through the generations orally and constantly threatened by cultural
homologizing, risks extinction. This would be a serious loss for
Abruzzo culture and this facility hopes to reduce that risk by keeping
the tradition alive, making it available and guaranteeing continuity
with the past , not to mention recognizing the value of this art
form which is characterized by work songs, extraliturgical songs,
pilgrimage songs, serenades, love stornello folk songs and satiric
stornello folk songs, children's songs, dancing music, lullabies,
and fables. Though it still being set up, we know that there will
be three main areas: an exhibition area housing traditional musical
instruments from this region, as well as other regions (bass-drums,
bagpipes, different kind of fifes, goat bone flutes, various kind
of rhythmic instruments, double bass barrel-organs); an archives
section, which will organize scholarly sources and be equipped with
a library, photograph library, phonographic library, icon library,
and video library not to mention an internet site which will allow
visitors to consult the material housed in the museum. Lastly there
will be a research section equipped with a regional research laboratory
and designed for internships and national and international conferences,
conventions, cultural exchange programs with institutions and university
seminars.
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CERQUETO DI FANO ADRIANO
Museum
of Folklore and Folk Traditions
Via
del Colle, 12 Tel. (+39)0861.95195/95185 Closed for restoration
The
museum was born out of a private collection at the beginning of
the 1960s and has grown over the years to become a permanent exhibition
dedicated to the numerous activities practiced in the past by inhabitants
of this area. Indeed, most of the material preserved in the museum
comes from the houses in Cerqueto and other villages around Gran
Sasso. In addition to exhibits featuring tools used by shepherds
and other devices used for spinning wool, cotton and hemp, the museum
also boasts laces and from various sources, votive offerings on
canvases and sheets, tools of San Vito for tooth aches, mousetraps,
pistols and muzzle-loading rifles, terracotta pipes, wooden and
majolica flasks, wooden tablespoons and forks, terracotta pots and
artisan's tools.
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CIVITELLA
DEL TRONTO
History Museum of the Fortress
Fortress
of Civitella del Tronto Tel. (+39)0337/666221 -Fax (+39)0861/91588
e-mail civitellatronto@tin.it Hours: Open every day, In the winter
from 10am to 1pm and from 2.30 to 5pm; in the summer from 10am to
1pm and from 3 to 8pm, in the spring from 10am to 1 pm and from
3 to 7pm and in the autumn from 10am to 1pm and from 3 to 6pm. Ticket
price: £5.000 (2,58 euro), £3.000 (1,54 euro-reduced price)
The
Fortress of Civitella del Tronto, more than 500 meters long and
covering an area of approximately 25,000 square meters, is one of
the most impressive examples of military engineering in Italy. It
was constructed under Spanish rule between 1564 and 1576. Today
it houses the museum whose exhibits include many objects related
to the fort's military function: old weapons, flags, uniforms, maps
and numerous documents which bear witness to the political activities
which took place in the Fortezza over the centuries.
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CONTROGUERRA
Museum of the Peasant Society in Val Vibrata
Via
S. Giuseppe, 26 Tel. (+39)0861.856630 Hours: Open every day from
9am to 7pm. Ticket price: free admittance
Housed
in a typical rural structure, this museum offers a wide variety
of objects which bear witness to that fact that the area's rural
activities of the past are still at the base of its economic development.
In addition to farming tools and various tools once used by artisans,
there are also sections displaying photographs, documents, agricultural
contracts and marriage contracts. There is also a part of the museum
dedicated to the production cycle of grain and wine and above all,
hemp. And it is here in the section dedicated to hemp where you
will find the exhibit containing the most objects including handicrafts,
as well as explanations of the cultivation and processing of this
fiber.
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GIULIANOVA
Splendore Art museum
Viale
dello Splendore Tel. and fax (+39)085.8007157 Hours: Open every
day, except Monday, from 10am to 1pmand from 4 to 7pm and during
the summer from 10am to 1pm and from 5 to 10pm. Ticket Price: £5.000
(2,58 euro-full price), £2.000(1,03 euro-reduced rate)
Standing
on the edge of the Giulianova's historic area, the restored old
Convent of the Madonna dello Splendore, is not only an important
religious building, it also houses two important cultural centers:
MAS, Museo d'Arte dello Splendore and the library "Padre Candidi
Donatelli." MAS, the Museo d'Arte dello Splendore of Giulianova,
strongly promoted by Father Serafino Colangeli, opened its doors
to the public on July the 27th 1997. The POC (Piccola Opera Charitas)Foundation
took over management of the museum committed to creating a well
run, culturally rich museum. POC is assisted by a Scientific committee,
chaired by Father Serafino Colangeli with Floriano De Santi in charge
artistic direction. The other members of the committee are Carlo
Fabrizio Carli, Maurizio Fagioli dell'Arco, Claudio Spadoni and
Duccio Trombadori. MAS has been working ardently since July the
27th 1997. The 1200 square meter museum has three floors. The ground
floor hosts temporary exhibits. The first floor is reserved for
the permanent collections with rooms dedicated to Giuseeppe Banchieri,
Armando De Stefano, Franco Francese, Alberto Gianquinto, Carlos
Mensa, Gaston Orellana, Josè Ortega and Aligi Sassu. The third floor
houses 100 works by 85 different Italian and foreign artists completing
the permanent collections of the museum. Painters on this floor
include Attardi, Bonichi, Calabria, Carmassi, Cremonini, Dova, Falconi,
Fieschi, Germanà, Guccione, Linnovaara, Miller, Morgan, Ossola,
Platiner, Quetglas, Recalcati, Rivers, Savinio, Scanavino, Schifano,
Sughi, Tornabuoni, Vespignani, Zigaina, etc. Sculptures include
Floriano Bodini, Pietro Cascella, Lopez Hernandez, Alfred Hrdlicka,
Lopez Garcia, Joaquin Schmettau and Giuliano Vangi. In addition
to its extraordinary anthological exhibits, the museum also organizes
cultural meetings, conferences and concerts, acting as a bridge
between the world of research and cultural activities in the region
and great national and international artistic events.
GIULIANOVA
"Vincenzo Bindi" Picture Gallery
Corso
Garibaldi, 109 Tel. (+39)085.800211 - Fax (+39)085.8021268 Closed
for restoration
First
opened to the public in 1978, the gallery's many rooms house a collection
which belonged to the art scholar Vincenzo Bindi who donated the
collection to the town in 1928. Besides the large collection of
paintings by Consalvo Carelli, a great exponent of the Posillipo
school, which includes "Grotta della Sibilla Cumana" and "Golfo
di Napoli" and works by painters like Michetti, Patini and Della
Minica, the museum also boasts travel notes, autographs of artist
friends, books with dedications, sculptures, 17th century majolicas
as well as sofas and other furniture which are an integral part
of the museum.
GIULIANOVA
San Francesco Cultural Center
Via
Scarafoni, 3 Tel. (+39)085.8006012 - Fax (+39)085.8003677 Open Mon.
Through Fri. 8.30 am - 1pm and 2.30 - 7pm Sat. 8.30 am -1pm (closed
on Sun.) Free Admittance
In
addition to its well stocked library of art, theology, medicine
etc, the Cultural Center also boasts oil paintings, lithographs,
serigraphy, and acid incisions by numerous contemporary artists
including Gigino Falconi who was the first to donate his works to
the Cultural Center. You can also admire paintings by Gaston Orellana,
Gioxe De Micheli, Robert Carrol and Giorgio Bonelli. An actual museum
will soon be opened at the center.
GIULIANOVA Torrione "Il Bianco"
Via
del Popolo, Acquaviva crossroads Giulianova Infoline: tel. and fax
(+39)085.8021215 From Mondays to Fridays From 9:00am to midday and
from 3:00pm to 6:30pm e-mail: bib.civica.bindi@zerotime.it Free
admission
The
Torrione "Il Bianco" hosts a new archaeology section for Giulianova's
extensive museum system. A rich collection of amphorae and precious
lanterns testify to the importance of relics dating back to the
Ancient Roman period and brought to light two decades ago in the
Bivio Bellocchio area. This ancient tower, formerly an integral
part of the defence system commissioned by the Acquaviva family,
was chosen to exhibit them, for it is considered the ideal link
between the past's historic memory and the contemporary need to
valorise our cultural heritage.
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ISOLA
DEL GRAN SASSO
Staurós Museum of Contemporary Sacred Art
SSantuary
of S. Gabriele Tel. (+39)0861.975727- Fax (+39)0861 975929 Hours:
Open every day, except Monday, from 9am to 12.30 pm and from 3.30pm
to 7.30 pm. Ticket price: Free admittance
Linked
with the Biennial of Sacred Arte, the museum hosts world's greatest
collection of sacred works of art. Housed in the Sanctuary of San
Gabriele dell'Addolorata, boasts numerous sacred contemporary paintings
and sculptures including the Fieschi Collection donated by the artist
and other works on the theme of the Passion and Resurrection of
Christ by important artists such as Brindisi, Caruso, Borgonzoni
and Donzelli. The generosity of these artists and many others who
have participated in the Biennale of sacred art since 1984, has
made it possible to assemble the large and ever growing collection
of works of art which this museum proudly hosts.
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MONTEPAGANO
Museum of Material Culture
Corso
Umberto I Tel. (+39)085.8930473 Open every day 9.30 am -1.30pm and
4-6pm (closed on Mon.) Ticket price £10.000 (5,16 euro) Reduced
price £5.000 (2,58 euro)
The
Museum of Material culture is housed in several rooms in the old
town hall of Montepagano. Many different kinds of objects are on
exhibit including musical instruments, typewriters, antique books
and photographs, farm equipment, and artisan tools. The museum has
also faithfully reconstructed two living spaces from the peasant
era: a kitchen full of household objects and a bedroom complete
with sink and trousseau. Both these exhibits help to bring alive
the various other exhibits in the museum. The museum has recently
expanded, adding two other sections. One is dedicated to medicinal
and curative herbs, as well as herbs used in cooking while the other
section houses holy pictures and holy images from the 19th century
to today.
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MORRO
D'ORO
Museum of Peasant Art and Folk traditions
Piazza
Duca degli Abruzzi, 2 Tel. (+39)085.895145 -Fax (+39)085.8959566
e-mail: uff.morro@tin.it Open every day 8am-2pm Free Admittance
The
museum is housed in the cellar of the old Palazzo De Gregoris and
contains approximately 300 objects on display which bear witness
to the farming and artisan activities of Morro D'Oro over the past
two centuries. Farming tools, as well as woodworking and weaving
tools are on display in the various rooms found on 3 different floors
of the museum.
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MOSCIANO
SANT'ANGELO
Natural Science Museum
Via
Colle Leone, 35 Tel. (+39)085.8061499 - Fax (+39)085.8062564 e-mail:
oacl@zerotime.it Open all year around 9am-1pm Mon., Wed., and Fri.
9pm-2am (closed on Sunday afternoons, Tues. Thur. And Sat.) Free
Admittance
The
museum, houses an exhibit of fossils and minerals and is part of
a multidisciplinary complex that includes the Astronomic Observatory
and the recently built Planetary Observatory.
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NERETO
Museum of Radio and Telecommunications
Scuola
Elementare Via Vittorio Veneto Tel. (+39)0861.82220 Not yet open
to the public
This
museum represents an important achievement for the Val Vibrata recognizing
this area of the Teramo Province with its rich heritage which includes
art and archeological sites. The museum, which is housed on the
top floor of the local elementary school, boasts a well-stocked
picture gallery, as well as rooms dedicated to literature, archaeology,
antique radios and telephones and other telecommunications equipment.
The other sections which are planned have been set aside for the
comune of Val Vibrata and will contain exhibits of art treasures.
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NOTARESCO
Romualdi Museum
Via
Romualdi, Tel. (+39)085.895021 - Fax (+39)085.835381 Open every
day 6-9pm during the summer months Sat. and Sun. 5-8pm in the winter
Free Admittance
The
museum's three sections house a variety of exhibits. The archaeological
section is found on the first floor and boasts finds from the Roman
villa discovered in the area of Mandamento di Notaresco. The ground
floor is equipped with a multimedia room and also boasts stone artifacts
and a collection of sea shells and fossils dating back to the Jurassic
period.
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ROSETO
DEGLI ABRUZZI
Municipal Art Collection
Via
Nazionale, 250 Tel. (+39)085.8930101 Open 9am -12.30pm and 4 -7pm
(closed on Sun.) Free Admittance
The collection, inaugurated in 1981, is housed on the ground floor
of the Villa Comunale building. The collection boasts works by the
Celommi family of painters: Pasquale, his son Raffaello, his grandson
Luigi and his grand-nephew Riccardo. The collection includes the
"Ciabattino" masterpiece by Pasquale Celommi. Works by local artists
are also on display.
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TERAMO
City Archaeological Museum
Via
Delfico, 36 Tel. (+39)0861.247772 -Fax (+39)0861.247120 Hours: Open
every day from 9am to 1pm and 5 to 7pm. Ticket price: £10.000 (5,16
euro), reduced £5.000 (2,58 euro).Web site: www.civicimuseiteramo.com
It
is first piece in this very complex puzzle in which objects and
shapes are spaces in the city landscape of ancient Interamnia. These
spaces, which can still be seen today in the historic center, have
been carefully restored and can now be enjoyed by those who want
to get a feel for the past. Together with the museum, they help
to reestablish the identity of this ancient town. The Museo Archeologico
has avoided the painful passage from living history to what can
sometimes be the cold, sterile environment of the museum used simply
as a kind of warehouse, thus a visit to the museum becomes and opportunity
to recover your cultural and historical roots in light of now forgotten
aspects of history. The exhibits of the finds, the theories that
reconstruct the past, the plastic models, and graphic displays regarding
typical elements of the ancient city bear witness to this process
in which we are truly able to recover our cultural heritage. Eight
rooms, which simulate a kind of journey through time to give a taste
of the everyday life in the ancient city of Interamnia, have recreated
public gathering places using epigraphs, statues, enormous capitals,
bulky column crosiers, the charming decoration of the fronts of
theaters, small fragments of a decoration which are refined and
meticulous in every detail. In addition to the statues, used as
garden ornaments for private homes, you will find everyday objects
such as small bowls, amphoras for storing wine, part of a small
table in the shape of a lion's paw., an earring, a flower vase,
a tablespoon, bobs from a loom, different shaped pieces of colored
glass from containers, decorative household items, fragments of
delicately or brightly colored plaster, mosaic floor tiles. This
collection of everyday objects gives us a glimpse into the everyday
life of households in Interamnia, bringing history alive, letting
us peek over the thick walls surrounding the villas where these
objects were once used. You can then move on to another part of
this ancient world, the necropolis. Exhibits include epigraphs,
the delicate image of the deceased together with the dedication
to sketch the outline of their face and capture their spirit for
eternity; funereal statues placed near the tombs as an enduring
tribute to the memory of the deceased, not to mention the funereal
objects found along the ancient Roman road outside the city. It
is here in death that we find memories of life such as die, pawns,
bowls, small vases, tear-bottles bearing tangible signs of crying,
unguent containers and dozens of small bone fragments that adorned
the funereal pyre. The last exhibit room contains a painting showing
what the Roman Road must have been like. It depicts the road running
through the green countryside flanked by mausoleums, where the weary
traveler stopped to rest in this natural setting, and as he listened
to the "memento mori" came to reflect on life and death . The largest
room in the museum, the splendid S. Carlo hall can seat 160 and
houses teaching laboratories, the historic record of the comune
as well as a coffee shop and museum shop.
TERAMO
Collurania Museum
Contrada
Specola - Teramo Tel. (+39)0861.210490 - Fax (+39)0861.2104492 Visits
must be prearranged Free Admittance Not yet open to the public
This
museum houses a historic collection of instruments used during the
last century in scientific research at the Collurania Astronomic
Observatory. The observatory has set aside small areas of the Observatory
to display numerous antique instruments. These instruments have
been restored and catalogued to facilitate study and research. Indeed,
cards containing detailed descriptions of each object allow visitors
to gain insight into how the instruments actually work. In addition
to numerous telescopes and binoculars, the exhibits also feature
marine chronometers, astrographs, voltmeters, and numerous other
precision instruments from the last century.
TERAMO
City Picture Gallery
V.le
Bovio, 1 Tel. (+39)0861.240315 Fax (+39)0861.247120 Hours: Open
every day except Monday, from 9:00am to 1:00pm and from 3 to 7pm.
Ticket price: £10.000 (5,16 euro), reduced £5.000 (2,58 euro). Web
site: www.civicimuseiteramo.com
A
key repository of Teramo's artistic heritage and heart of its museum
network, "Citta di Teramo" housed in the neoclassic Villa Comunale
building converted into a museum in the 1920 and renovated in 1958
and 1979, is currently closed to the public for restoration and
the work being carried out to enlarge the museums exhibit areas.
The museum houses a collection which has grown over time thanks
to generous donations. Its oldest works date back to1863, and consist
mainly of works of art from churches or monasteries and a few private
collections. Works from the collection span from the 15th-century
to the present and mainly consist of art from the Abruzzo that was
influenced by artistic schools in Umbria and the Marches in the
15th-century, and in the following centuries, by the cultural reality
of Rome and Naples as seen in the works of the Neapolitan and Roman
school of the 17th and 18th centuries and in those attributable
to great Neapolitan artists like Luca Giordano, Luca Forte, Francesco
Solimena, Leonardo Coccorante, Francesco De Mura, Corrado Giaquinto.
Other artistic periods are also represented. For example, we can
admire a copy of the dais della Pala by Joos van Clève, probably
a product of the school of Genoa, paintings by Carlo Saraceni and
Orazio Gentileschi, a canvas by Georges Mesnil de La Tour with its
fascinating composition, a 16th-centruy painting from Veneto, valuable
not only artistically but also as a historic document, since it
shows the ancient privilege of the excommunication of bishop counts
from Apruti as well as the internationally famous Francesco Chiericati.
The artistic world of the Abruzzo region is represented, in the
section regarding 19th and 20th century art, by paintings from the
last century by Pasquale Celommi, Vincenzo de'Vincentis, Ugo Sforza,
Giuseppe Verdecchia, Raffaello Palgiaccetti and by works by Guido
Martella, Manfredo Acerbo, Leno Rossi and above all Giovanni Melarangelo
and Guido Montuati and by sculptures by Raffaello Pagliaccetti (1839-1900),
with his splendid "Cieca" (blind woman), almost "Renaissance Madonna
in rags" and by Vincenzo Crocetti (1913) with the figurative representation
of animals such as the lion, the lioness and the wounded fawn. The
fundamental part of the project now being realized is the creation
of a climate controlled environment for the storage of works not
on exhibit. These works will be available for viewing on request,
thus creating a museum that can be renewed periodically offering
new educational opportunities to gain a better understanding of
the historic and artistic heritage.
TERAMO
Museum of Folk Traditions
Villa
Pavone, Via Gabriele Melozzi Tel. (+39)0861 410404 Hours: Visits
must be prearranged. Telephone to make arrangements. Guided tours
(for schools, groups, etc.) must be prearranged. Ticket price: Free
admittance
The
museum is owned by Mr. Liberato Coccagna and is run with the assistance
of the "AMICI DELLA CULTURA POPOLARE" association. Outside the two
story museum, an old wagon wheel, an all-wood plow ("perticara")
and a large harrow stand near the entrance. A collection of implements
used in peasant farming, rural households and various artisan activities
(blacksmithing, carpentry, shoemaking, etc.) is displayed on three
walls on the ground floor. The collections of measuring devices
for liquids and dry substances, kitchen utensils and copper pots
and pans are particularly interesting. And be sure not to miss the
unusual collection of mouse traps. There is also a fireplace exhibit
with all the traditional tools including andirons, "sufflaturo",
spit, "callàra", grill etc. This section also contains an interesting
collection that includes a container for dry substances displaying
unusual workmanship, a truly one of a kind piece, called a "traja"
made of two boards brought together containing chips of flint, not
to mention numerous old "sieves", baskets and flasks. The upper
floor of the museum houses various exhibits including a section
dedicated to female activities, which includes irons, several copper
pots and pans, marvelous carved and decorated wash boards - made
of wood and terracotta - objects used in spinning, etc. Another
section is dedicated to "popular devoutness" and displays sacred
images and objects, while the school section displays old desks,
inkwells and ink bottles - some of which are very old - pens, nibs,
inks, folders, notebooks, books, spelling-books, report-cards, abacuses,
maps, pastels, etc. The "bedroom" section contains a dressing table
and every imaginable accessory for men and women. Two glass cabinets
display a wide range of interesting objects including a splendid,
well-preserved "tambourine" with painted dancing figures. A section
dedicated to children's games includes objects made by children
themselves (slingshots, wheelbarrows, tops, etc) as well as manufactured
games such as a splendid 19th-century bingo board, playing cards,
the "Mail Game", a bingo game for children etc.
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TORTORETO
Museum of Maritime Culture
Via
Nazionale Adriatica Nord, 1 Tel. and fax (+39)0861.789180 e-mail:
colliger@advcom.it Hours: Open every day, except Sunday, from 3
to 7 pm. Ticket price: free admittance
The
museum, owned and managed by the Colligere Cultural Association,
opened in 1998. The intent of the Colligere Association was to pay
tribute to the fishing tradition as part of the local history. This
was achieved by looking at one of the small towns along the Adriatic
coast which has developed into a seaside resort town only in the
last decades and has undergone rapid and fundamental economic and
cultural transformations. The material regarding the local fishing
industry, which is quite small compared to the wealth of marine
biology exhibits, is displayed according to the different aspects
of this culture.. The exhibits display a variety of objects which
are linked to one another by the common theme of the marine environment
seen as a natural habitat and a part of the local culture. The exhibits,
which were once part of collections, mostly display models and reconstructed
tools (there are approximately 100 objects related to seafaring
culture), as well as the reproduction of scenes from the seafaring
life, but there are also exhibits dedicated to the oral culture.
An effort is now underway to recover oral expressions from the local
seafaring tradition and to gain a better understanding of this way
of life which is now part of our past with the collaboration of
local ex-fishermen and artisans This small but well organized museum
is worthy of mentions since it is the only one of its kind in the
Abruzzo region (the Ichthyic Museum in Pescara has a primarily naturalistic
orientation) dedicated to a rich fishing tradition which is completely
absent form other local museums also due to the perishable nature
of the materials associated with this tradition.
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TOSSICIA
Museum
of Traditions and Artisan Techniques of Abruzzo
Via
Salita del Castello Tel. (+39)0861.698414 - Fax (+39)0861.698170
Open in July and August Free Admittance
The
museum is housed in the recently restored medieval Palazzo Marchesale.
It aims to document everyday life and artisan techniques of the
past, which in some cases are still used in the area today. The
exhibit features the "Ramai (coppersmisths) del Chiarino", offshoots
from the Etruscan and Eastern civilizations in the central Apennines.
A visit to the Tossicia Museum will not only broaden your knowledge
of the history and culture of the people of Gran Sasso but it will
also provide you with an opportunity to reflect on the current relationship
between society and the environment. It aims to educate the visitor
to a more responsible use of the natural resources which our ancestors,
with their lifestyle, held so dear. The various sections of the
museum house numerous copper objects, furnishings and work tools
as well as documents and photographs.
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