Il Museo Biscari, located inside a wing of the 18th-century Palazzo Biscari, one of the oldest palaces in Catania, a precious testimony to Sicilian baroque, for years preserved the vast archaeological and natural collections of Ignazio Paternò Castello V Prince of Biscari, later transferred to the Civic Museum of Castello Ursino in 1930.
Officially inaugurated in 1758, the Museum boasted vast archaeological and natural collections, as Goethe celebrates in his book “Journey to Italy”. Today the museum hosts the MF “Museum&Fashion” which combines culture and fashion in an original and unmissable combination.
The “Galleria Naturalia” hosts the MF Atelier by designer Marella Ferrera, while the “Galleria Antiquaria” is the setting for a permanent exhibition: an interactive story that links the creative history of the Maison to the traditions and roots of Sicily, along with a series of temporary exhibitions aimed at reviving and proposing the memory of a Museum which in the eighteenth century was a source of pride and glory for Sicily.
