The Pitre museum, now located in the annex of the Chinese house, to the Favorita. Was founded in 1909 by Giuseppe Pitre Palermo, the renowned scholar who became interested in studies of folklore, lived in Palermo between 1841 and 1916. Originally the museum was housed in an old school building in Via Maqueda, the College of the Assumption. After the death of Pitre, for decades, the collections toremained inaccessible until his student Joseph Cocchiara, in 1935 the museum moved to its current location in the park of the Favorita. Cocchiara gave orders that the will of the master be respected in the arranging the objects in the Pitrè museum according to the criterion of the study “the life and art of the Sicilian people”. Inside you can admire objects of various kinds: from embroidery to the tools used by the Sicilian peasants, from the texiles workers to shop signs, the sedan chairs and carriage used by the Senate of Palermo and by noble family, the Filangeri. Typical objects of popular belief as the egg with pins or the walnut with three sections, masks and votive objects and evening dresses from Caltagirone. In two separate building but adjacent you can visit the royal kitchens where inside were arranged objects used for cooking,you can see the mechanism similar to that of Trianon of Marie Antoinette and the mathematics table. Also we find the access to the underground passage leading directly to the dining rooms of the Casina Chinese. Finally, you can see some models of the wagon of Saint Rosalia feast of the 800 and early 900 ‘.
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