Attics and Puppet Museum

Dear visitor, welcome to the attic rooms.

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The attics were the spaces dedicated to the servants' quarters.

 

These rooms today house the Sicilian Puppet Opera Museum, created thanks to the collaboration between the Municipality of Carini and the Sicilian Puppetry Association of Palermo, directed by Angelo Sicilia.

The Museum, at the moment, is structured in four itineraries, more precisely in four themed rooms: the two on the lowest level are dedicated to the Paladins of France and to the monsters and puppets of farce; above, however, the Saracens are exhibited and, following, the Baroness room.
The exhibition features around a hundred works including puppets, scenarios and traditional curtains from the history of Sicilian puppets linked to the Palermo school, tracing a path from the 19th century to the present day and coming from the collections of Angelo Sicilia himself.

All this represents an important historical turning point, as well as a tribute to one of the most beautiful Sicilian traditions, not forgetting that the Puppet Opera, in May 2001, was recognized by UNESCO as a "Masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity ".

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I invite you now to go back and continue your visit towards the rooms dedicated to the kitchens of the Castle