To know and discover the history of Catania and its extended province, we propose you a directory of museums that to their inside accommodate unique pieces. From the ancient art to the modern one passing through the naturalistic museums,  to admire the patrimony that the countries of the Etna and Catania keep by centuries.

            The museums in Catania

•  Giovanni Verga Museum

Type - Specialistic museum

It is the house in which the famous Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga born and died. It's a palace of XIX the century and it is made up of various atmospheres: the drawing-room, the library and the bedroom. Very interesting is the library, which conserve 2500 volumes belonged to the writer of the "Malavoglia".

1. Address : via Sant'Anna, 8
2. Timetable: From the tuesday to friday h 9,00-14,00/h 15,00-19,00;15,00 - Wednesdays h 9,00-14,00 - 17, 30; saturday h 9,00-14,00; Sunday 9,00-13,00;
3. Closing - monday.
4. Income : € 3,00 (from 18 to  25 years);  € 2,00 (from 25 to 65 years).

•  Museum of the Sea

Type - Specialistic museum

The Museum of the Sea collects tools and nautical instruments donate by the fishermen. You can find vary types of fishing net, “fusi” used to hoist the net on the boat, vary containers that served to transport the fish captured. There are other things like amphoras for the wine transfers from the greek-roman age.

1. Address - Piazza Ognina, 14-17
2. Timetables: opened only on reservation. Tel. 3339713831
3. Closing -   monday
4. Income: € 1,00

•  Diocesans museum

Type - Museum of sacred art

The Diocesan Museum is closely to the historical, cultural and religious vicissitudes of our territory. There are nine rooms that represent several thematic like Sant' Agate and her ancient treasures of the Cathedral.

1. Address - via Etnea, 8
2. Timetables (October-May): From tuesday to saturday, h 9,00-12,30/16-19,30, monday and Sunday on reservation.
3. Income : € 4,20: entire -   €2,50: (reduced for groups of students, persons with more than 60 years)

•  Museum of the Study

Type - Specialistic museum

A collection of documents and objects of the history and the university life. Inside the museum there are pictures of  illustrious university professors of Catania, and diplomas of  the XVII and  the XIX century.

1. Address - p.zza Università, 2
2. Tel - 0039 095/311022

•  Museum of Sculpture in Lava Stone “Valenziano Santangelo”

Type - Specialistic museum

The museum accommodates sculptures in lava stone and also: volcanic ash and volcanic bombs. Moreover photos of natural sculptures found in Acitrezza and San Giovanni Li Cuti.

1. Address - via S. A. Fulci, 55/A
2. Tel - 0039 095/7221642
3. Timetable - every day, festive on reservation
4. Free income

•  Historical museum of the Disembarkation in Sicily - 1943

Type - Historical museum

The Museum remembers the life during the Disembarkation in Sicily. Through adequately reconstructed spaces, it proposes simulations and exposures of original exhibits.

1. Address - C/o Cultural Center “Le Ciminiere”, Viale Africa
2. Tel - 0039 095/533540 -0954011929 Fax: 095 4011929
3. Timetable - from tuesday to Sunday h. 9,00-12,30; tuesday and thursday 15,00-17,00
4. Closing - monday
5. Income -  € 4,00; reduced € 1,00

•  Bonajuto chapel

Type - Artistic museum

It's a byzantines church, constituted by numerous spaces of medieval ages and of the 400. It' s used for exposures and conventions.

1. Address - via Bonajuto, 5-13
2. Tel - 0039 095/321338
3. Timetable from tuesday to saturday 9,30-13; also on reservation
4. Closing - monday and Sunday
5. Income -  € 2,00; reduced € 1,00

•  Museum of the Art of the Sicilian Chart

Type - Specialistic museum

The Museum accommodates approximately 150 objects. Between parts of "carretto", like wheels and keys, comprise also pieces in glass. Inside the museum, there is a laboratory of art  to restore """carretti""" and accessories of varied kind.

1. Address - via L. Capuana, 38
2. Tel - 0039 095/525342; 095/7211888; 347/6226638; 347/4846681
3. Timetable - on reservation
4. Income  € 1,00

•  Museums of Botany

Type - Naturalistic museum

1. Address - via Antonino Longo, 19
2. Tel - 0039 095/430901/02; 095/551120
3. Timetable - h. 9-13
4. Closing - Sunday and festive
5. Free income

•  Gallery of Modern Art

Type - Artistic museum

1. Address - C/o Cultural Center “Le Ciminiere”, Viale Africa
2. Tel - 0039 Info: 800551485 A.A.P.I.T. 095/7306222
3. Timetable -  tuesday - saturday 9,30-13; 16-19,30; festive 9,30 -13; 16-21,30
4. Closing - monday
5. Income -  entire € 2,58; reduced € 1,55

•  Civic museum of Bellini

Type -Civic museum

It's the house of Vincenzo Bellini. The museum describes the life and the career of the composer, from birth until the moment of his death.

1. Address - p.zza S. Francesco, 3
2. Tel - 0039 095/7150535
3. Timetable - every day from 9,00-13,00; 16,00-20,00 -- tuesday and thursday h. 15-18
4. Free income

•  Civic museum of  Ursino Castle

Type - Civic museum

The Civic Museum of  Ursino Castle accommodates the private collections of prince Biscari and the Benedictines. At its inside, there are Greek and Roman materials, archaeological materials and objects of the missionaries.

1. Address - p.zza Federico di Svevia
2. Tel - 0039 095/345830
3. Timetable - from monday to saturday h. 09.00 - 13.00; 16,00-20,00
4. Closing - Sunday and festive
5. Free income

•  Museum of Cinema

Type - Specialistic museum

The museum accommodates a collection of first used spiders and travels over again a virtual tour through the world of the cinema.

1. Address - C/o Cultural Center “Le Ciminiere”, Viale Africa
2. Tel - 0039 095/4011928-4012630; fax 0954011930-4011623
3. Timetable Wednesday - friday - saturday - Sunday, h. 9,30-12,30 // tuesday and thursday, h. 9.30-11.30 and 15.00-17.00
4. Closing - monday
5. Income - entire ticket 4,00 euro; reduced 1,00 euro.

•  Museum of  Zoology

Type - Naturalistic museum

The zoology museum comprises more than 1500 exemplary, like colibrì,  parrots, mammals and invertebrates.

1. Address - via Androne, 81
2. Tel - 0039 095/7306017
3. Timetable - on reservation tuesday and thursday
4. Free income

•  Museum "Emilio Greco"

Type - Artistic museum

1. Address - p.zza S.F. D' Assisi, 3
2. Tel - 0039 095/317654
3. Timetable - h. 9,00-13,00; 16,00-20,00 - tuesday and thursday h. 15-18
4. Free income

•  Museum of Mineralogy, Paleontology and Volcanology

Type - Naturalistic museum

The museum accommodates collections of sicilian fossils of the Paleozoico and the Mesozoico periods, collections of  vegetables and molluschi fossils.

1. Address - corso Italia, 55
2. Tel - 0039 095/7195767
3. Timetable - on reservation
4. Free income

             Paternò

•  San Francesco alla Collina

Type - Artistic museum

1. Address - Collina storica (Historical Hill)
2. Tel - 0039 095/621109
3. Timetable - every day h. 9,20-12,40/15,45-19,15; Sunday for appointment
4. Closing - saturday afternoon and monday
5. Free income

•  The Norman castle

Type - exposure area

The castle, going back to XI century, today is well conserved thanks to several the restorations . In the enter floor  we can find the ancient chapel with traces of frescoes; in the first floor the room that today is called weapons hall, a wide hall exactly, where four double lancet windows allow the lighting system; in the second floor  a great hall with  two double lancet windows; and the terrace from which it is possible to admire a beautiful landscape.

1. Address - Collina Storica (Historical Hill)
2. Tel - 0039 095/621109
3. Timetable - every day h. 9,20-12,40/15,45-19,15
4. Closing - saturday afternoon and Sunday
5. Free income

•  Gallery of Modern Art

Type - Artistic museum

1. Address - via Monastero, 2
2. Tel - 0039 095/623244
3. Timetable - from tuesday to friday h. 10-12; tuesday and  thursday  h. 17-19
4. Closing - saturday Sunday monday
5. Free income

            Riposto

•  Botanical museum “Park of the Kentie”

Type - Naturalistic museum

1. Address - via M. Carbonaro
2. Tel - 0039 095/9702092
3. Timetable - from monday to saturday h. 9,00-13,00
4. Closing - festive days
5. Free income

            Viagrande

•   Museum of Lava

Type - Specialistic museum

1. Address - Via Dietro Serra, 6
2. Tel - 0039 0957890768
3. Timetable - Saturdays, Sunday and festive 9.30-13.00/16.00- 19.00; from Tuesday to Friday only for groups on reservation
4. Closing - monday (eventual single opening on reservation)
5. Income - € 5,00 with guide, € 4,00 without guide; reduced for old, children and residents in Viagrande euro 4,00 with guide and euro 3,00 without guide   

            Sant'Alfio

•  Museum of the wine

Type - Specialistic museum

1. Address - p.zza Duomo
2. Tel - 0039 095/968772; fax 095/7824142
3. Timetable - on reservation

            Santa Venerina

•  Museum of the Millstone

Type - Specialistic museum

1. Address - via Palombaro, 56
2. Tel - 0039 095/953678
3. Timetable - every day from the h. 9
4. Free income

            Santa Maria di Licodia

•  Civic museum

Type - Archaeological museum

1. Address - via Vittorio Emanuele, 272
2. Tel - 0039 095/628024

            Acireale

•  Museum of the Civilization Peasant and Craftsman (Aci Platani)

Type - Anthropological museum

1. Address - via Vittorio Emanuele, 122
2. Timetable - saturday and Sunday h. 10-13

            Caltagirone

•  Museum of the Photography and Permanent Extension of art Presepi d'arte

Type - Specialistic museum

1. Address - via Principessa Maria, 9
2. Tel - 0039 334/3358978
3. Timetable - from tuesday to saturday h. 9-13/15,30-19,00
4. Closing - monday
5. Free income

•  Extension of the "Sicilian Puppet"

Type - Specialistic museum

1. Address - via Verdumai, 1
2. Tel - 0039 0933/54085
3. Timetable - from  monday to saturday h. 9-13/15-19, Sunday and festive h. 9-20 continued timetable
4. Income - Extension € 1,00; Shows of the puppets on reservation, € 3,50

•  Museum of the Presepi

Type - Specialistic museum

1. Address - via SS. Salvatore, 18
2. Tel - 0039 0933/57458; 330/589651; 335/8183784
3. Timetable - every day on reservation. Saturday h. 9,30-13; Sunday h.15, 30-19
4. Income - € 1,50

•  Gallery of Modern Art

Type - Artistic museum

1. Address - via Regina Elena, 19
2. Tel - 0039 0933/21083 0933/41812 Bookshop 0933/57409
3. Timetable - from tuesday to saturday 9.30/13.30 - tuesday - friday - saturday and Sunday 16.00/19.00 / on Sunday  9.30/12.30
4. Closing monday
5. Income  € 2,50

•  Civic Naturalistic extension

Type - Naturalistic museum

1. Address - ex  Elementary School of the Village of Saint Peter, fraction of Caltagirone, in the center of the Natural Reserve.
2. Tel - 0039 0933/41812
3. Timetable - For the visits contact 368 3784202 - Opening: tuesday thursday and saturday 9.30-13.00; sunday 9.30-13.00 16.00-18.00 (18-20 from june to October) - Opened every day with reservation for groups and students.
4. Free income

•  Museum of the Historical House

Type - Artistic museum

1. Address - via S.M. di Gesù
2. Tel - 0039 0933/41812
3. Timetable - tuesday friday and saturday h. 9,30-13,30/16-19    -   Wednesday thursday and Sunday (only morning). h. 9,30-12,30/16-19
4. Closing - monday
5. Free income

•   Civic Museum  “Luigi Sturzo”

Type - Civic museum

1. Address - via Roma, 10
2. Tel - 0039 0933/41812 0933/31590 Bookshop 0933/58254
3. Timetable - from tuesday to saturday h. 9,30-13,30; tuesday friday saturday and sunday.16-19; sunday h. 9,30/12,30
4. Closing - monday
5. Income - entire euro 2,58 - euro 1,29 reduced

•  Museum of the Cappuccini

Type - Museum of sacred art

1. Address - via Cappuccini, 138
2. Tel - 0039 0933/21753
3. Timetable - every day h. 9-12/15,30-19; Sunday h. 10,15-12/15,30-19
4. Income-  entire euro  1,50 - euro 1,00 reduced

•  Regional museum of the Ceramics

Type -Artistic museum

1. Address - via Giardini Pubblic
2. Tel - 0039 0933/52783; 0933/58418; 0933/58423
3. Timetable - every day h. 9-18,30
4. Income : Entire € 3,00; Reduced 18-25 years € 2; Gratis old beyond 65 years and minors

            Taormina

•  Palazzo Corvaja

Palazzo Corvaja was realized during the Arabic domination in Taormina. In fact its structure has in its base a tower  that remembers the" Arabs the sacred"-  “ Ka `bah”. It's the dice that, according to Maometto, was the first temple raised to God from Abrham to La Mecca.

The palace was realized in the beginnings of 1400 in order to allow the reunions of the first sicilian Parliament of 1411. Currently Palazzo Corvaja is the center of the "Etno-anthropological" Museum in which are exposed objects from the art and traditions of the period comprised between the XVI and the XIX century.

            Randazzo

•  The Svevo castle

Going back to the XIII century, the Svevo castle in past was called “Mastio” because was a  fortification. In the anciently it was the room in which there were the prisoners after they have been tortured, today it has been realized the Museum of the Limbs Peasants.

•  Museum of the Sicilian Pupi

The Pupi accommodates in this museum is all dressed in war dresses, and represents the famous cycle of the “chanson de geste” whose protagonists are Carl Magno and its knights.  The armors have been reconstructed around to years 1912 - 1925, from Emilio. Part of the Pupi, pertaining to the same collection, is found near the Palermo Museum of the Marionettes.

1. Open hours : every day h 10,00-13,00 / 15,00-19,00
2. Income: € 2,60.  Sales for school-children

•  Archaeological museum Vagliasindi

The museum conserve the archaeological collection  from the cavalier  Paul Vagliasindi by the half of the 800 sec., thanks to fortuitous discoveries in the feud of the same Vagliasindi, and, thanks to the diggings completed in the situated land in contrada S.Anastasia, that gave to the light other precious reperts.
Other diggings in the same zone completed from Salinas, director of the Archaeological Museum of Palermo, and subsequently from Paul Bears, director of the Bureau of the Sicily orient, showed that the land was occupied from one large "necropolis":infact were discovered thirty coffins said at "cappuccina", that were covered from large "tegoloni".

1. Open hours : every day h 10,00-13,00 / 15,00-19,00
2. Income: € 2,60.  Sales for school-children

            Nicolosi

•  Volcanological museum

In the museum, visitors can see the exposure of minerals, lava, volcanic bombs and science videos. A collection of blowups, describes the various eruptions of the last twenty years. Moreover can be admired a plastic of the entire etnee territory in scale.

1. Open hours : every day h 9,30-12,30 ;Tuesday and Thursday h 15,30-17,30
2. Closing on Monday
3. Free income

            Linguaglossa

•  Museum of People of the Etna

The museum collects mainly objects and tools used in the past by ancient Etnean people. Here are rebuilt all the ancient environments disappeared.

1. Timetables of opening: from the Monday to Saturday h 9,00-13,00 / 16,00-20,00;
2. Closing - Sunday afternoon
3. Free income

            Giarre

•  Museum of the Presepio

The museum accommodates approximately one hundred presepiali pieces, that can be considers true and own works of art. There are some of varies types, like those in leccese cartapesta, in sicilian terracotta and pugliese, even in wood of cirmolo coming from the Trentino and with Neapolitan figures.

1. Open hours: Wednesday and Sunday  h 17-19 ; h 10-12,30/ 16,30-19,30; from 5 of December to 8 of January every day h 16,00-20,00
2. Closing -  on july and august
3. Free income

•  Mediterranean Aquarius of Giarre

The Aquarius, distributed on two plans, contains fourteen tubs that host many sea organisms  of the Mediterranean, coming from sandy depth, and from the abysmal sea environment.

1. Timetables: from tuesday to friday h 9,00-13,00/15,00-18,00;
2. Closing - monday
3. Income: entire ticket € 3,00 reduced ticket € 2,00  

            Bronte

•  The Nelson' Ducea

King Ferdinand of the two Sicily, was forced in 1798 to abandon the reign of Naples because of the revolutionary motions, and succeeded to shelter itself to Palermo with the aid of Nelson. The year after, Ferdinand, returned to having its throne,  wanted to thank those services and granted the Abbey of Maniace, the earth and the city of Bronte. The complex of the Ducea, characterized from a quadrangular perimeter on which buildings with and two elevations extend, is famous for its big park that extends outside and inside for approximately four hectares.

1. Winter timetable: 9,00-13,00 / 15,00-17,00
2. Summer timetable: 9,00-13,00 / 15,00-18,30
3. Income: Guided visits  € 2,60; Groups of ten visitors € 1,60; Schools € 1,00; not guided visits only exterior pavilion   €1,30

            Belpasso

•  Permanent show of Natural Sciences

Inaugurated in 2005, the show is divided in several sections: that geologic, paleontological volcanology one and, that botany and micologic one, and at last that anthropological zoologic one . In particular, that volcanology collection collects piroclastici of the Etna and of the Aeolian Islands, samples of  etnean lava, pillows of Acicastello, Mount Scalpello and the Iblei.

1. Timetables: tuesday, thursday, Sunday h 10,00-12,00; Wednesday and saturday h 17,00-19,00
2. Free income

            Adrano

•  Castle of Adrano

1. Open hours: from  tuesday to Saturday  h 9,00-13,00 / 15,00-18,00;
2. Free income

            Acitrezza

•  The House of the Nespolo

It is the house in which Giovanni Verga makes the Malavoglia reside, the family of fishermen protagonist of its novel. On its inside can be found the old tools used from the fishermen and the photos taken from the film of Luchino Visconti, the earth shakes, shot in 1948 and whose actors were the true fishermen of Acitrezza.

• Museum “Casa del Nespolo” (Medlar tree house)

1. Winter timetable ( since October up to March): h 9,30-12,30 / 16,00-18,00;
2. Summer timetable up to the middle of June 9,00-13,00 / 15,30-18,30; since the middle of june : h 9-13 / 17,00-21,00 
   

•  Civic museum of  Norman Castle

Type - Civic museum

The museum of the castle is divided in 4 sections: Paleontology, Archaeology, Mineralogy, Aquarius of the Mediterranean. Inside there is a garden with an exposure of species of plants like: begonias, roses and bouganville.

1. Address - p.zza Castello Normanno
2. Tel 095/271026 guided visits: 095/7373414
3. Timetable: Every day. Winter timetable (until 27 March): h. 9-14/15-17; summery timetable: h. 9-13,30/15,30-19,00.
4. Income: Entire € 2,50; Reduced (7-10 years and beyond 59 years) € 1; student € 1 (elementary) and € 1,50 (medium and advanced)