Sicily Attractions
Marionettes © Museo Internazionale delle Marionette
Marionette Museum
One of Palermo's most unique attractions is the engaging Museo
Internazionale delle Marionette, a museum dedicated to the art of
puppetry, which is an age-old traditional Sicilian entertainment.
Free shows are often put on in summer, but the museum collection
itself, the greatest of its kind in the world, is entertainment
enough. Most of the antique puppets on display evoke Norman Sicily,
representing chivalrous heroes and Saracen pirates, knights, ladies
and troubadours. The collection includes puppets from the Far East
and even some English 'Punch and Judy' dolls.
Address: Via Butera 1 (around the corner from the Palazzo Chiaramonte), Palermo;
Website: www.museomarionettepalermo.it;
Telephone: (091) 328 060;
Opening time: Monday to Friday 10am to 1pm and 3.30pm to 6.30pm;
Admission: €5 (adults), concessions available
