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REGIONAL MUSEUM AGOSTINO PEPOLI

Regional Museum Agostino Pepoli

The museum is housed in a 14th c. Carmelite Convent which was considerably redesigned between the 16th and 18th centuries, not far from the celebrated Sanctuary of Santissima Annunziata, where the marble statue of the "Madonna of Trapani", attributed to Nino Pisano, is kept and venerated.

The museum illustrates with its collections of paintings and sculptures the development of the decorative art in the territory of Trapani and in particular that of applied art, which was very important in the field of coral objects, majolica, gold, silver, and cribs.

The collections. The museum originated from the private collection of Count Agostino Pepoli, a strong promoter of the institution at the beginning of the 20th century. Other significant additions have come from deconsecrated convents in Trapani and from the Fardelliana Art Gallery, a rich collection of works of the Neapolitan school donated by General G. B. Fardella to the town of his birth.
The original foundation was later enlarged by bequests, loans and donations of numerous collections of antiquarian interest and of decorative art: noteworthy are the donations of Count Hernandez di Erice and of the Sieri Pepoli Hospice.

The museum displays paintings and sculptures and dedicates particular attention to the decorative and applied arts.

Ground floor
Rooms 1 and 2 inscriptions and sculptures

Upper floor
Rooms 3-11 art gallery, works of 16th to 18th c.
Rooms 12-14 cribs
Rooms 15-16 corals
Rooms 17-18 gold and silver objects
Rooms 19-20 church ornaments and vestments
Room 21 majolicas
Room 22 drawings and engravings
Room 23 archaeological items
Room 24 coins
Room 25 historical relics of Trapani and paintings from 19th c.

Museo regionale Agostino Pepoli di Trapani - Museo interdisciplinare
Address : Via Conte Pepoli, 200
Province : Trapani City : Trapani

(Source: regional cultural heritage site)