Iblean Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions, Modica

“Serafino Amabile Guastella” Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions. Created by the Cultural Association “Serafino Amabile Guastella” and opened to the public in 1978, the museum reconstructs the artisan and farming environment of the County of Modica, with careful attention to detail, preserving a precious heritage of original tools, furnishings, and utensils that are presented as symbols of Modica’s identity. This is the ideal place for those who love to take a step back in time. The museum invites visitors to experience the space of ancient artisan workshops: the carpenter, the tinsmith, the barber, the plate mender, the sweet maker, the saddler, the ropemaker, the basket weaver, the tailor, the stonemason, the pick miner, the shoemaker, the blacksmith, the wheelwright, the honey extractor. The memory tableau is completed by the extraordinary reconstruction of a typical rural house, the ‘massaria’.