“Il “ Museum of the San Domenico Factory” is located in the building of the former Convent of San Domenico, whose construction (1638-1774) began under the direction of Mons. Giacinto Petronio, a Dominican friar who became Bishop of Molfetta. After the suppression of religious orders, it came under the administration of the municipality and was used for other purposes until its current use as a Museum and cultural center. In fact, the building also houses, in the former icehouse, the ethnographic exhibition “”Of the master shipbuilders in the shipyards of Molfetta,”” curated by the Archeoclub, with drawings, models, work tools, etc. On the ground floor, there is 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, alongside the municipal library “”G. Panunzio,” the children’s library and the philatelic section, is the Museum of the San Domenico Factory, which is developed in exhibition sections placed in rooms and a gallery corridor. The sections cover the following thematic areas: SEA, TERRITORY, ART AND FAITH and preserve testimonies from 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
