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Tempo Civic Museum

The Tempo civic museum in Canicattini Bagni is a dive into the past: it collects testimonies of the life of Sicilian emigrants and a beautiful permanent exhibition of the fabric.

How did Sicilian emigrants live in the early twentieth century?

Find the answer at the TEMPO civic museum, Museum of the senses, of the Textile, of the Emigrant and of the Popolar Medicine, of Canicattini Bagni, municipality near Syracuse.

It is a dive into the history of our ancestors, but not only: the museum also hosts a beautiful permanent exhibition of the fabric, from noble to peasant fabrics, to children's kits, with a section dedicated to the history of the loom.

TEMPO is set up inside a house dating back to the early 1900s, called Casa del Migrante because it was financed by emigrants who left their city to seek their fortune in the United States or Latin America.

The construction was entrusted to well-known master builders of the time, who built a beautiful house in late-liberty style, with all sorts of luxuries for that period (architectural decorations, bathroom, light switches, taps for hot and cold water and even the first appliances), thanks to the American dollars that emigrants earned and sent home.
The house was then closed and reopened in 2000 and used as an anthropological museum.
The path that awaits you will be exciting and meticulously designed to give you a precise narration of the past.

Among the rooms you will encounter we point out the entrance, u Puzzu Luci (courtyard), u Majazzè (closet, cellar), a stanza re picciriddi (children's room), a stanza ri manciari (dining room), the kitchen , the living room and the bedroom.

You will be able to appreciate unique details: in the entrance bordered by a beautiful carved stone arch, there are numerous work tools from that era; you will find wooden cabinets and numerous fabrics, including frazzat, ancient Arab-inspired cloth tablecloths;
in la stanza ri manciari, there is a well-preserved frame,
"u tilaru" and other period furnishings;
in the living room, in addition to ancient armchairs, sideboards and small tables, also an old reliquary from Syracuse where clothes attributed to Saint Lucia were kept;
In the bedroom period furnishings such as wardrobes, large chest of drawers called cantarani, bedside tables and wrought iron beds, equipped with fabrics of the time.
But there are many testimonies of a life that was, devoted to simplicity and sharing, which in TIME you will admire and love!

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Via Agostino de Pretis, 18

96010 Canicattini