“Il “Museum of the San Domenico Factory” is located in the factory building of the former Convent of San Domenico, whose construction (1638-1774) was started by Mons. Giacinto Petronio, a Dominican friar who became Bishop of Molfetta. After the suppression of religious orders, it came under the municipality’s availability and was used for other purposes until its current designation as a Museum and cultural container. In fact, the building also houses, in the former icehouse, the ethnographic exhibition “”Of the master shipbuilders at the shipyards of Molfetta,”” curated by the Archeoclub, with drawings, models, work equipment, etc. On the ground floor, instead, the “Beniamino Finocchiaro Conference Room,”” the “”Giulio Cozzoli”” Plaster Cast Collection, the Municipal Historical Archive, the multimedia educational laboratory and the internet point. On the first floor, along with the municipal library “”G. Panunzio,”” the children’s library and the philatelic section, is located the Museum of the San Domenico factory, which develops in exhibition sections placed in rooms and a gallery corridor. The sections cover the following thematic areas: SEA, TERRITORY, ART AND FAITH and preserves testimonies of the great historical-cultural periods of the MIDDLE AGES, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE, NINETEENTH-TWENTIETH CENTURY.”
Information about the Museum of the San Domenico Factory
Via S. Domenico, 69
70056 Molfetta (Bari)
0803359331
Source: MIBACT
