Located inside Palazzo Sardi and established by the Comunità Montana Peligna to illustrate and educate about aspects of our local nature, it consists of several sections. There is also a documentation centre with meeting rooms, an educational workshop, a themed display dedicated to rocks and the water cycle. Thee are also entomological collections of minerals and a small collection of...
The museum’s collection consists mainly of equipment and materials from the period between the end of the 18th and the early 21st century.
One can see, amongst other exhibits, lithophanes, polioramas, chambre clair, viewers from the two decades 1840-1860 (including the first original Brewster stereoscope), the German camera "Stirn" from 1888 - one of the first spy cameras, as well as many micro...
The museum consists of three exhibition rooms on two floors. In the first section the displays include the Pelino family tree, mementos and valuable objects, among which are the ancient patents of the Pelino factory, diplomas and honours and an important and valuable collection of wedding favours from the 19th and 20th centuries plus some artistic confectionery creations.
In the second...
The result of an agreement between the various agencies and institutions including the Diocese of Sulmona-Valva, the City of Sulmona and the Superintendent the museum was established in late 2002 in the former convent of Santa Chiara, It occupies three different environments. Works are distributed around the cloister: the former chapel for the nuns - who from here could, through grates,...
The prints, about 160 of which are from the Accardo collection, are reproductions of male and female costumes from Abruzzo, dating from 1790 to the period preceding the unification of Italy. In fact the history of costume from Abruzzo and Molise is documented in relatively recent times and linked to that of the Kingdom of Naples.
In the second half of the...
The result of a joint project between the City of Sulmona and the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage for Abruzzo, the whole section has been greatly increased and rearranged according to modern criteria and was reopened in 2011.
On display there are artefacts belonging to the Comune which had previously been donated to the original museum and...
The medieval-modern collection, located on the first floor of the building, in the rooms of the main building overlooking Corso Ovidio, spreads over five halls and in the 1990’s, during the renovation, was reorganized according to chronological and typological exhibition criteria. Along the stairway and in the first "Knight’s" room - so called as it was here that the Jousting amour was kept -...
