A museum entirely dedicated to mythology will be born in Sicily: the Museum of Myth in Enna

The opening of Enna’s Museum of My th, a museum entirely dedicated to mythology and entirely multimedia, is set for the coming weeks. Making the announcement is the mayor of the Sicilian city, Maurizio Dipietro, along with the company Sarterìa, a startup that deals with cultural design and will oversee the creation of the new institution. The Museum of Myth, reads Sarterìa’s presentation, will have “the objective of revitalizing the Archaeological Park of the Sicilian city by experimenting with a museum model with a strongly innovative imprint, a space of encounter between culture, man and technology, which in recent decades has expanded and dilated the concept of art and fruition of it.”

Thanks to the use of multimedia and immersive art, “the creation of the new exhibition site,” Sarterìa continues, “places at the center the historical, archaeological wealth and traditions that characterize the city of Enna, bringing into system the archaeological pre-existences in which it is rich. The project will be able to bring attention back to a site of high patrimonial value, starting from its traditional vocation, the Myth, its universality, its communicative and aggregative capacity, and its modernity.”

From early previews, we know that the museum’s narrative will focus mainly on the myth of Ceres, the goddess of the harvest, to whom a sacred area in the city was dedicated. The museum, a first for Sicily since it would be the first institute of its kind on the island, will be based at several sites in the Sicilian city (the Capannicoli, the Rocca di Cerere and the Castello di Lombardia) and will use immersive video projections, spatial audio, and virtual environments.

“We believe it is important in such a difficult phase for our country to give a message of hope, the hope of total return to normalcy,” says Giuseppe Saccà, film producer and one of the founders of Sarterìa. “We are certain that culture and art are the driving force behind the rebirth of the city of Enna and Italy in general.”

“The opening of the Museum of Myth,” said instead the first citizen of Enna, “will be an important attraction for our city, aiming to capture the interest of an important strand of tourism. An original and far-reaching initiative that constitutes an opportunity for economic development and cultural redemption for our community.”

Pictured: the Castle of Lombardy.

A museum entirely dedicated to mythology will be born in Sicily: the Museum of Myth in Enna

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