Museo etnostorico Nello Cassata

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Exhibits in the Museo etnostorico

The Museo etnostorico Nello Cassata (Ethnohistorisches Museum Nello Cassata) is an ethnological museum in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto .

The museum is located in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, metropolitan city of Messina , Sicily , on a land area of ​​1500 meters, with the two-storey building Casa di Manno, the country residence of the Sicilian noble family Cassata, and the main building of the museum.

In the other buildings there were around 45 commercial studios with 20,000 objects that were cataloged and restricted by the Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali (Monitoring Authority for the Cultural Assets of Messina) . The commercial studios reflect the work cycle of that time and show restored and functional tools and work equipment.

The museum is not structured in sectors, but documents the various activities and trades in a general way. In terms of type, as well as the quality and quantity of the objects, it is one of the most complete anthropological representations of Italy.

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Coordinates: 38 ° 9 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 15 ° 14 ′ 14.1 ″  E