Museums of Apulia

Taranto - Museums

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

The Archaeological Museum of Taranto is the most important archaeological museum, founded in 1887. The building is on two floors: on the first we find the Greek — Roman section; on the second we can admire the prehistoric section dating back to the Paleolithic and the Bronze Age.

Brindisi - Museums

Museo Archeologico Provinciale - Mapri

The Museum, established in 1884, is named after Fabrizio Ribezzo, scholar of Messapian civilization, and is an important place for local archaeology. The objects on display belong from prehistory to the Roman period. The Archaeological Museum is divided into 6 sections. The public can admire bronze artifacts, anchors, ceramics with red and black figures etc. the museum has been enriched thanks to the excavations conducted systematically in the territory.

Foggia - Museums

Musei Civici e Pinacoteca

Going up the grand staircase of Palazzo Arpi you enter the museums. The museums are archaeological, scientific, historical, of folk traditions and a picture gallery with works of Pugliese artists from '800 and '900 .

Grottaglie - Museums

Museo della Ceramica

The Municipality of Grottaglie in the province of Taranto is one of the 46 members of the Italian Association of Ceramic Cities. The Museum was born on 22 December 1999 and is located in the Episcope Castle, in the historic center surrounded by historic buildings. It represents one of the most important Apulian museums dedicated to ceramics and currently houses 5 sections: archeology, majolica, traditional ceramics, traditional ceramics and nativity scenes.

Trani - Museums

Museo delle Carrozze

The Trani Carriage Museum was established in 1956, thanks to the private collection of the family of Dukes Telesio di Toritto, current owners of the collection. The exhibition presents elements typical of the bourgeoisie of the '800. It contains 33 vintage carriages of different types dating from around the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, carefully taken care of by the artisans of the period.

Gallipoli - Museums

Museo Civico "E. Barba"

The “E. Barba” Civic Museum was founded in 1823 by Carmine Fontò who offered the first public donation of his books. Below also the Dominican and Franciscan convents of the city donated their collections. The Museum was subsequently entrusted to Emanuele Barba who also set up a zoological cabinet there.

Lecce - Museums

Pinacoteca d'Arte Francescana

The Franciscan Art Gallery is located inside Palazzo Fulgenzio that dates back to the 16th century. It is an art museum that was run by the Franciscan Friars. Currently it houses a large collection of works, a hundred sixteenth-century, seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century paintings. All the furniture in the room is very nice with furniture from the period. Admission to the art gallery is free of charge for all interested in art.

Manfredonia - Museums

Raccolta Etnografica del Centro Studi Pugliesi

The Ethnographic Collection of the Pugliesi Study Center of Manfredonia houses a collection of Apulian dialect voices, recorded on tape. Voice recordings tell anecdotes about everyday life. In addition, tools from different trades used at the beginning of the twentieth century are exposed to the public.

Foggia - Museums

Museo del Territorio

The Territory Museum was established in 1998 by the Provincial Administration of Foggia. The Museum presents the history of the Captain population in the first millennium of the Christian era in such a way as to make it easy for the public to visit and the history of the territory. Currently the museum is composed of two sections, the first one that introduced at the time and the other that shows some aspects of the material and artistic production of the Capitanata in the Middle Ages. Today the museum is proposed as a cultural container that comes to life thanks to the exhibitions and events it hosts.

Brindisi - Museums

Museo Archeologico Provinciale "F. Ribezzo"

The Francesco Ribezzo Provincial Archaeological Museum is located in Piazza Duomo in Brindisi. The building takes its name from the homonymous and illustrious archaeologist and glottologist. It has numerous and large rooms in which it preserves attic vases of great interest. In 1992 it was enriched with underwater findings of Punta del Serrone consisting of bronze statues.

Ostuni - Museums

Museo di Civiltà Preclassiche della Murgia Meridionale

The Museum of Pre-Classical Civilizations of the Southern Murgia was opened to the public on 14 May 1989. The Museum is located in the rooms of the former monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. It contains materials found in an archaeological area in the municipality of Ostuni. The most interesting are the cast of the Woman of Ostuni, some ceramics and ornaments ranging from the Paleolithic to the age of metals.

Bari - Museums

Museo di Scienze della Terra

The collections, which tell the history of the Earth from its formation to the appearance of man, belong to the University of Bari. The most interesting finding is, perhaps, the fossil skeleton of a whale lived in the Pleistocene.

Bari - Museums

Museo Archeologico Provinciale

it is among the most visited museums in Bari, exhibiting artifacts from archaeological sites in Puglia, which testify to the flourishing civilizations since prehistoric times. Of particular relevance is the section reserved to Greek ruins.

Bari - Museums

Museo Etnografico Africano

The Museum exhibits the material collected by the Missionary Fathers, such as musical instruments and masks, ivory and wooden objects, material that documents, in part, African culture and civilizations, as well as a reconstruction of a town in Mozambique.

Bari - Museums

Gipsoteca del Castello Normanno Svevo

Located in the Swabian Castle of Frederick II, the gypsoteca preserves plaster casts of external and internal ornamental sculptures of monumental religious and civil buildings of Puglia from the 11th to the 17th century, but they come temporary exhibitions are also set up.

Molfetta - Museums

Museo Diocesano

Museum collection of the Archpriest Giuseppe Giovene to whom we owe the first collection of archaeological material from the Pulo. A second core of the collection, due to the priest Francesco Samarelli enriched the Museum of finds.

Bari - Museums

Pinacoteca Provinciale

The museum also houses an important collection of works of the Italian nineteenth and twentieth century and is home to exhibitions and cultural events. It also consists of works dating from the fifteenth century to the present day.

Bari - Museums

Museo della Basilica di San Nicola

The Museum of the Basilica of Saint Nicholas is located in the city of Bari. Its construction began in 1089 and ended only in 1103. The consecration tombstone of 1197, which some interpret as the end of the works, was an act of devotion to Emperor Henry IV, who, in memory of his father Federico Barbarossa, set out for the Crusade asking for the blessing of St. Nicholas.

Bari - Museums

Museo Storico Civico

The Civic Historical Museum of Bari was inaugurated in 1919. Inside, you can see many ancient paintings, period postcards, small models of ships, ancient books concerning city history, the first book printed in Bari, dating back to 1535 “Operette del Neapolitan Suavio.”

Molfetta - Museums

Raccolta Civica d'Arte Contemporanea

Bari - Museums

Museo Scienze della Terra

The Museum of Earth Sciences of Bari is part of the Department of the University of Bari. It is a collection of geo-environmental sciences and the earth. Inside, there are several historical collections acquired by the same University during the 1950s. The museum has a Mineralogical — Petrographic sector and a Geopaleontological sector arranged within an area of about a thousand square meters.

Bari - Museums

Museo-Raccolta di Fisica

In the Museum of Physics of Bari there are three different collections, the Collection of the Institute of Experimental Physics, that of the Institute of Rational Mechanics and that of the Institute of Physics. The physics collection supports about 184 materials and objects, used for experiments. It is one of the most important museums in the city of Bari and is open to the public.

Molfetta - Museums

Museo della Pietà Popolare

The Museum of Popular Pietà is a small museum that preserves works of great value. The museum is located inside the rooms of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs. The collection houses statues, antique prints and also a collection of cribs from around the world. The works that are located in the museum allow visitors to make a historical excursus that starts from the twelfth century and ends with the last work realized in 2004.

Bari - Museums

Museo Diocesano

Gravina in Puglia - Museums

Museo - Fondazione E.Pomarici Santomasi

The E.Pomarici Santomasi Foundation is located in the seventeenth-century Palace originating from the Santomasi family, then linked to that of the Pomarici of Montepeloso. The exhibition space is distributed over three floors. On the ground floor there is a permanent exhibition of vintage clothes belonging to the Pomarici family. On the first floor is the Library that boasts 36,000 volumes including precious manuscripts and scrolls. On the top and second floor there is the space dedicated to archaeology that collects local coins and relics of excavations of pre-Roman times.

Putignano - Museums

Museo Civico

The Civic Museum is located in the Palace of Bali. It contains works, objects, furniture and a collection of weapons belonging to the eighteenth century. Since 1967 the Palace has been owned by the Municipality, given to him by Prince Romanazzi Carducci.

Porto Cesareo - Museums

Museo di Biologia Marina

The Museum of Marine Biology in Porto Cesareo is dedicated to fauna and marine flora and its habitat. This was founded in 1966 by naturalist Pietro Parenzan, who then donated the collections to the University of Lecce in 1977.

Porto Cesareo - Museums

Museo Talassografico

The Thalassographic Museum contains a malacological collection, a herbarium and rare fish species.

Otranto - Museums

Museo Civico Paleontologico

The Civic Museum of Paleontology is home to outstanding collections of prehistoric. It was founded in 1960 by the Speleological Group Salentino and is entitled to Decio de Laurentiis, who directed him until his death. The exhibition starts with the earliest evidence of life in Salento about Cretaceous era to reach up to the beginning of the Iron Age.

Bari - Museums

Museo di Zoologia

The Museum of Zoology of Bari was established in 1925 and is part of the Department of Zoology of the University of Bari. Inside it exhibits a huge collection of different species, large turtles and also a 4-meter-long python. The Museum is open to all interested parties.

Andria - Museums

Museo Diocesano

The Museum, located inside the Bishop's Palace, was opened in 1972. It houses a large collection of ecclesiastical works of art: wooden statues, sacred vestments, medieval portraits, crucifixes and numerous other religious materials, coming from the churches of the city, especially from the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. The Museum is managed by the Diocese of Andria and is open to the public.

Ascoli Satriano - Museums

Polo Museale

The Museum is located on the first floor of the former Monastery of Santa Maria del Popolo. The museum consists of various rooms, with paintings, sculptures, valuable liturgical objects and silk vestments embroidered in gold. The museum was opened on 24 July 2007 and is visited by many tourists.

Ascoli Satriano - Museums

Museo Civico "P. Rosario"

Set up in the eighteenth-century Palazzo D'Autilia, the Museum preserves archaeological finds from the 9th century BC until the Middle Ages (Baroque with geometric decoration from the Daunia period, Greek ceramics of the V-III century. B.C., bronze necklaces and fibulae). The “Pasquale Rosario” collection offers a journey into the history of the ancient currency within which the local mint active in the pre-Roman era also fits.

Parabita - Museums

Quadreria "E. Giannelli"

The “E. Giannelli” Quadreria is located within the rooms of Palazzo Ferrari. The museum exhibits forty-three paintings and ten sculptures. The works belong to various authors such as Vincenzo Caprile, Giuseppe Costa, Ennio Marzano, Camillo Miola etc. in this collection are located some beautiful canvases belonging to Giannelli, where they come represented the marinas of the Gulf of Naples and Salento.

Trinitapoli - Museums

Museo Civico

The Civic Museum of Trinitapoli turns out to be a small but fascinating museum site. It welcomes various prehistoric materials and finds found in the surrounding area. Various prints and signs are exhibited in its rooms that retrace the history of the people and the development of the city.

Ugento - Museums

Museo Civico Archeologico "S. Zecca"

The “S. Mint” Civic Archaeological Museum is spread over two floors and welcomes rich testimonies and materials of Paleontology and Messapian civilization of the area. The most important work is represented by a faithful copy of the famous statue of Zeus, found in the 1960s in Ugento.

Vieste - Museums

Museo Civico Archeologico "M. Petrone"

The Archaeological Museum 'M.Petrone' is located in an old oil mill, near the Cathedral. The museum houses local artifacts dating back 10,000 years ago. You can find various objects such as spear heads and arrows, inscriptions daunie on stone from the fourth to the first century before Christ.

Acquaviva delle Fonti - Museums

Museo Comunale Storico

The Civic Museum of Campo di Alano Piave is located in the garden of the building and is divided over three floors. It presents objects, documents, iconographies related to the Great War of '15-18 and to emigration. You can see objects collected in the battlefield, photographs and original documents of the time. The Museum tells the story of 'Recuperants'. The structure is constantly changing to adapt to the needs of the materials on display.

Molfetta - Museums

Museo Pinacoteca "A. Salvucci"

Manfredonia - Museums

Museo Archeologico Nazionale

The National Archaeological Museum of Manfredonia is located in the interior rooms of the Swabian-Angevin Castle of Manfredonia. It showcases several funerary stems in limestone dating back to the 7th and 6th centuries BC. These stems celebrated the memory of characters of considerable importance depicting images both male and feminine.

Margherita di Savoia - Museums

Pinacoteca Comunale "F. Galante Civera"

The Municipal Art Gallery “F. Galante Civera” is located in the Tower of Margherita di Savoia. The building exhibits about one hundred and fifty works including sculptures, paintings and drawings by artists such as Guido Reni, Masaccio and Raphael. The work “The Shepherd”, painted by Francesco Galante, turns out to be the most interesting and suggestive one.

Margherita di Savoia - Museums

Museo Storico delle Saline

The Historical Museum of Salt Pans is located in an old salt warehouse adjacent to the Tower of Margherita di Savoia. Inside it is divided into four sections and houses about a thousand industrial finds through which the human-machine relationship is explored. The structure is thus a center of dialogue between citizens and the scientific community in the development of the production of salt pans.

Laterza - Museums

Museo Didattico Archeologico

The Archaeological Didactic Museum is located within the structure called “Citadel of Culture”. The exhibition includes ceramic objects and finds dating from the 7th to the 19th century coming from the territory of Laterza and its borders.

Lecce - Museums

Museo Missionario Cinese e di Storia Naturale

The Chinese Missionary Museum and Natural History owns various objects that the missionaries of the Friars Minor collected during their pilgrimage to the East. These are objects such as statues, tapestries, musical instruments, shells, examples of earthly fauna. Important for the enrichment of the museum is the collaboration with the University of Salento, with the WWF and the Environment League.

Foggia - Museums

Museo Interattivo delle Scienze

The Science Museum allows visitors to explore the relationships that exist between science, technology and everyday life. These are directly designed to satisfy the curiosity of visitors and at the same time make them entertain.

Parabita - Museums

Museo del Vino

The Wine Museum is located inside a millstone, built towards the end of the nineteenth century in the historic center of Parabita. The exhibition traces, through instruments and ancient objects, the cycle of wine production. You can then admire demijohns, barrels, furates, bascules and other numerous tools that are useful in winemaking.

Taranto - Museums

Galleria Comunale

It is located in the Aragonese Castle of Taranto and always awaits you with interesting, innovative temporary exhibitions and often in organization with the photographic circle “Il Castello”.

Taranto - Museums

Museo Etnografico "A. Majorano"

The Museum is housed in Palazzo Galeota, the museum is divided into five rooms displaying items and documents related to the rites of Holy Week, the popular games of the past, the magical-religious rituals, the work of the ancient province.

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Museo Archeologico di Vereto - MAV

piazza indipendenza, 32 - Patu'

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Museo Annibale Maria di Francia

Inside the museum there are various objects associated with the figure of the Blessed.

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Il museo virtuale dell'identità del territorio di terra di Bari

piazza federico ii di svevia, 4 - Bari

Housed in the Castello Svevo, it wants to observe and reflect on the elements of identityand movement in the area, a means of "virtual" interconnection of its nodes, and a model of cultural understanding, coexistence and cooperation.

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Museo della Civiltà Contadina "D. Bianco"

piazza caracciolo, 1-palazzo caracciolo snc - Sammichele di Bari

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Museo Etnografico della civilta franco-provenzale

vicolo valentino 1 - Faeto

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Museo della Civiltà Messapica

piazza dante ,palazzo baronale,fraz. vaste snc - Poggiardo