Museo Internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino
The Museo internazionale delle marionette Antonio Pasqualino is a cultural, historical and ethnographic museum in Palermo .
The museum emerged from the collection of the late Palermitan surgeon and clinic director Antonio Pasqualino . The company is run by the Associazione per la conservazione delle tradizioni popolari , headed by the founder's Danish widow, Janne Vibaek Pasqualino,
Originally housed in Palazzo Fatta del Bosco on Piazza Marina in Palermo, the museum with the Giuseppe Leggio folklore study library attached to it (approx. 3000 volumes) is now located in Piazzetta Niscemi behind the west side of Piazza Marina.
The theme is on the one hand the Sicilian puppet theater ( opera dei pupi ) declared by UNESCO to be the intangible heritage of humanity , and on the other hand the internationally widespread phenomenon of puppet theater. The collection includes 3500 puppets from all over the world. The reconstruction of historical puppet theaters is also shown.
Web links
Site of the museum with glitches in the navigation, but nice pictures
Coordinates: 38 ° 7 ′ 7.3 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 13.9" E