The Agostino Pepoli Regional Museum

A prestigious city institution is the “Agostino Pepoli” Regional Museum, located in the premises of the former convent of the Carmelite Fathers, of fourteenth-century origin, adjoining the Sanctuary of the Madonna of Trapani. It is one of the most emblematic museums of applied arts and is characterised by its collections of Trapani coral artefacts, the material thanks to which the city became famous for its craftsmanship, silverware, majolica and nativity-scene sculpture in coral, marine materials and wood, cloth and glue, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Named after its founder, Count Agostino Pepoli, who established it between 1906 and 1909, it also houses significant works of:

sculpture, including a San Giacomo, a masterpiece by Antonello Gagini (1522), and statues of the Gagini school;

painting, with a wide representation of the artistic culture of western Sicily between the 13th and 19th centuries: especially worth remembering are the precious polyptych of the early 15th century, attributed to an unknown painter called the Master of the Trapani Polyptych, and a painting depicting Saint Francis receiving the stigmata, attributed to Titian;

jewels belonging to the treasure of the Madonna of Trapani;

sacred vestments and period costumes;

majolica, including floors depicting fishing scenes;

relics of the Risorgimento, a testimony of the province’s participation in the Unification of Italy.