Majolica Museum Stanze al Genio
The Majolica Museum Rooms at the Genius inside it has an exhibition of almost 5000 examples of Italian majolica tiles from the 8th to the 11th century arranged in XNUMX rooms. The Museum is housed in a portion of the noble floor of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Torre Pirajno, in the municipality of Palermo in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi n. XNUMX. The main floor has been recently restored and inside you can see eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century ceiling decorations and vintage lambries. The itinerary is divided into a house museum that is actually inhabited and open to the public every day by reservation. Inside there are also minor collections of vintage stationery, contemporary ceramics and modern antiques.
The museum house is housed in the seventeenth-century halls of the noble floor of Palazzo Torre Piraino, the main halls retain the original flooring and frescoes from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The main collection is a collection of ancient majolica with almost 5000 specimens of Neapolitan and Sicilian origin, from a time span between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. Another minor section is dedicated to period stationery including a collection of over fifty mid-twentieth-century ink bottles, nib boxes and old glass inkwells. Finally, a section dedicated to contemporary ceramics, modern antiques and old toys. The exhibition part of the museum house is divided into eight rooms: the entrance hall, the neoclassical room (for the eighteenth-century decorations of the ceiling), the flower room (for the early nineteenth-century decorations of the ceiling) and the Burgio room, the ink room, the vase room, the dining room and the liberty room. The majolica exhibition is divided by age and by production centers (Campania and Sicily).
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