“Il Palazzo Pomarici Santomasi is a 17th-century building. Originally belonging to the Santomasi Family, it then passed, by right of succession, to the Pomarici Santomasi Family. In 1917, after the death of Ettore Pomarici Santomasi, the last descendant of the family, the palace and the 260-hectare farmed 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 homonymous palace which houses, on two floors, the Museum, the Art Gallery, the Library, the Historical Archive, the administrative offices, and the reading rooms. Worthy of attention are the Library and the Historical Archive which have obtained recognition of ‘Local Interest’ with Decree of the President of the Regional Council of Puglia no. 166 of April 9, 1986.”
Information about the Ettore Pomarici Santomasi Foundation Museum
Via Museo 20 ,
70024 Gravina in Puglia (Bari)
0803251021
info@fondazionesantomasi.it
Source: MIBACT
