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NIGHT OF MUSEUMS IN TRAPANI PROVINCE

Written by Luca Sciacchitano - 16/05/2014

From: 17/05/2014 - To: 17/05/2014

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The 17/05/2014 is the Night of Museums , sponsored by the Council of Europe´s 47 member countries , including Italy. For the occasion , the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Tourism will open the doors to several museums and archaeological sites, state and non - as well as cultural sites civic , thanks to the agreement with the National Association of Italian Municipalities - from 20:00 to 24:00 , with input symbolic 1 euro.
The special opening will be an opportunity for citizens and tourists to enjoy the Italian artistic heritage outside of the usual visiting hours , in many cases in a new light , given the hundreds of initiatives planned including concerts , thematic tours and guided tours .
Trapani hinterland has certainly not stood by and watched .

In Trapani , the museum " Agostino Pepoli " will remain closed saturday night but will be open sunday. You can enjoy the beautiful and characteristic kits and sacred objects made by master coral coral Trapani , once internationally renowned . Between civilian and military uniforms of the period of Garibaldi , visitors can observe the guillotine used for the putting to death of the local criminals ; nativity craft Trapani, characterized by the manufacture of wood , canvas and glue ; majolica, which stand between the flooring representing tuna fishing , a very important productive activity in the area.

In Marsala , took the Pinacoteca del Convento del Carmine, from 18.00 until 24.00 will host the exhibition "Journey to Sicily. The notebook Alwyne Joshua Spencer Compton , " exciting exhibition sponsored by the Foundation Sicily and the National Institute for Graphics . You can watch over 79 beautiful drawings documenting the journey made in Sicily by the Marquis of Northampton, Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton March to July of 1823 .
Free access also to the museum Baglio Anselmi, which gives, among other things , the remains of a Punic ship dating back to the mid- third century . BC, the period of the First Punic War , recovered in 1971 in the sea off Long Island , in the vicinity of Signum , north of the lagoon at the mouth of the Lagoon of Marsala .

Night of Museums also in Gibellina at the Belice / EpiCentro Memory Alive, open from 16 to 01. A place that tells the dreams of a people , the nightmare of the earthquake , the battles for democracy and the reconstruction of the Belice .

In Mazara del Vallo, it will be possible to have access to the Museum of the Dancing Satyr , where is preserved the beautiful bronze of the same name , which was found at sea in 1998 , by chance, from the fishing vessel "Captain Fat " during a fishing trip. A sensational discovery : exhibited in Rome , at the headquarters of the Chamber of Deputies, in 2003 ; in 2005 at the Tokyo National Museum and, consequently, in Expo 2005 Aichi . Finally, in 2007, as part of an exhibition dedicated to the works of the sculptor Praxiteles greek - to some scholars, the author of the work - the statue was exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

At Favignana , you can visit the former Florio Plant, recently reopened to the public , the interior of which is divided into themed museum spaces : one with archaeological finds in the sea surrounding the archipelago ; objects and tools of the former tuna and feature massacre ; the multimedia rooms in which they are projected archival footage of the famous and ancient massacre .

The students of the Experimental Center of Cinematography Course Animation of Turin and the course of Cinema d´Impresa of the Milan office have produced two videos to support the campaign of the initiative , visible online on sites www.beniculturali.it and www.fondazionecsc.it