The Museum is located inside the ancient Palazzo Pantaleo, a building with a splendid 18th-century architectural structure, soon to become the City’s Virtual Museum. The Ethnographic Museum “Alfredo Majorano” extends from the second floor of the Palace, then including the kitchen and the stable on the lower floors, and houses significant evidence of the tarantism phenomenon with a considerable cultural heritage assembled by the scholar Alfredo Majorano, who conducted his anthropological research in Taranto and the Ionic province before Ernesto de Martino. Majorano, deeply connected to the traditions of his land, collected objects documenting the city’s traditions, later made known through various publications, exhibitions, and conferences. Thus, the Ethnographic Museum was named after this great promoter of the recovery and enhancement of Taranto’s ethnographic tradition. The exhibition path unfolds across several themed rooms, which from the second floor also include the 18th-century kitchen and stable on the lower floors. It contains artifacts related to the sea, the land, ancient crafts, objects attesting to the playful world of the past, alongside religious devotion artifacts.
Information about the Ethnographic Museum “Alfredo Majorano”
Rampa Pantaleo, 6
74100 Taranto (Taranto)
0994581747
culturataranto@comune.taranto.it
https://www.comune.taranto.it
Source: MIBACT
