Il museo
Il Museo Civico “Antonio Collisani” istituito nel Novembre 2003 dal
Consiglio Comunale di Petralia Sottana
ha sede nei locali restaurati dell’ex
Carcere quattrocentesco. La struttura, estesa su due livelli, che conserva
ancora le tracce della sua originaria funzione nelle splendide grate
a due ordini magistralmente intrecciate (foto), ospita due sezioni: la
Geologica e l’Archeologica. I due spazi espositivi nascono in due tempi
diversi, nel 2004 quello geologico inaugurato in occasione del meeting
internazionale dell’European Geopark svoltosi a Petralia Sottana e quello
archeologico nel 2008 con l’esposizione
della preziosa “Collezione Collisani”.
Come in una stratigrafia ideale si percorre la storia della terra, da
milioni di anni fa, quando le Madonie
erano
una
splendida barriera corallina, fino a giungere a quella recente di
3000
anni fa con le
produzioni artistiche dell’uomo. Il viaggio
ideale all’interno del Museo è reso reale dai due allestimenti:
didattico e interattivo quello della
geologia e classico ma innovativo quello archeologico. Grazie al Museo
Regionale “Salinas” di Palermo alla Collezione depositata dagli eredi di
Antonio Collisani, si è aggiunta una sala dedicata alla “Grotta del
Vecchiuzzo” famoso sito preistorico scoperto dallo stesso Collisani. Questa
realtà Museale, voluta anche dall’Ente Parco delle Madonie, si innesta nella
rete dei musei delle Madonie arricchendola, così da elevare ancor di più
l’offerta culturale del territorio.
The Collisani
Collection is the while the shelves of his office were full of small bottles
and brushes. fruit of decades of enthusiastic The most difficult restoration
that Antonio Collisani undertook was research and interest by that of a
white-figure crater.
Antonio Collisani, who used to The varied artefacts that had been collected
by Antonio Collisani and capture stories from artefacts: that made up his
collection reveal his interest for all historic periods not only the stories
that were and for every kind of object.depicted, but also those that The
collection includes artefacts from prehistoric to historic periods: could be
gleaned from the way Neolithic flint tools, prehistoric and protohistoric
pottery, as well as an artefact had been made. ceramic figurines and vases
dating back to between the Archaic His strong emotional drive did period (sixth
century B.C.)and the late Hellenistic period (second n o t p r e v e n t h
im f r om century B.C.). In addition to the artefacts that have just been
deepening his scientific mentioned the collection also includes:
polychromatic glass objects interests or from devoting (balsamaria, pendants,
ornaments), typical of the Mediterranean himself to those techniques between
the first millennium B.C. and the first four centuries A.D., and and methods
that he had learnt bronze objects (fibulae, bracelets, necklaces, armlets,
plaques,
for the conservation of bronze figurines), which are varied in style and
chronology (ranging artefacts. In the late 1950s, from the second millennium
to the second century B.C.). Amongst the and for a prolonged period of
bronze artefacts, a bronze figurine of a warrior from Petralia Sottana time,
he converted his office as is particularly worth a mention. A few Roman
coins (third to first a m a g i s t r a t e i n t o a centuries B.C.), some
small altars (fourth to first centuries B.C.) and conservation laboratory.
architectural elements (sixth to fourth centuries B.C.) complete the Books
were piled on the floor, collection
