“The Palazzo Pomarici Santomasi is a 17th-century building. Originally belonging to the Santomasi Family, it later passed by inheritance to the Pomarici Santomasi Family. In 1917, after the death of Ettore Pomarici Santomasi, the last descendant of the family, the palace and the agricultural estate of 260 hectares of cultivated land were tied to the Municipality of Gravina and, by his testamentary disposition, in 1920 the ‘Ettore Pomarici Santomasi Foundation with the School of Agriculture and Dairy, Museum of Antiquities and Library of Gravina in Puglia’ was established. The school was abolished in 1963 and transformed into a “State Middle School” retaining the name. The Foundation is located in the seventeenth-century eponymous palace which houses, on two floors, the Museum, the Art Gallery, the Library, the Historical Archive, administrative offices, and the reading rooms. Worthy of attention are the Library and the Historical Archive which have obtained the recognition of ‘Local Interest’ with the Decree of the President of the Apulia Region Council no. 166 of April 9, 1986.”
Information about Ettore Pomarici Santomasi Foundation Museum
Via Museo 20,
70024 Gravina in Puglia (Bari)
0803251021
info@fondazionesantomasi.it
Source: MIBACT
