Museum “Culture and Popular Music of the Peloritani”, Messina

The Museum “Culture and Popular Music of the Peloritani,” active since 1996, is configured as an exemplary experience for the preservation and enjoyment of a significant portion of the heritage of Sicilian oral tradition culture.

In addition to reconstructing the long and complex organological history of the popular musical instrument collection, arranged according to the classic families of aerophones, chordophones, membranophones, and idiophones, the exhibition path highlights, with the help of a rich iconographic apparatus, educational-informative cards, and video supports, the typical characteristics of each instrument, namely the occasions of use, the ceremonial functions fulfilled, the construction methods, and tuning techniques.

The suggestive journey through the instrumental sounds of tradition, developed in four rooms, also offers a multimedia space for deepening, articulated in a bibliographic section, a video station, and a digital area for listening to instrumental and vocal repertoires of celebration and work.