Menniti Palace

The palace is located in the upper part of the town, the last anthropized area (except for Jardìnu), near Piazza Santa Barbara. Built in the 17th century, it belonged to the noble Menniti family, which is no longer present in Badolato. In the past, however, like the Gallelli and Paparo families, it produced several mayors and other important personalities.

With its entrance on Corso Umberto I, decorated with the most beautiful granite portal in Badolato, the palace is quite large and its structure suggests that it was originally a convent. In the middle of the last century it was sold to the Scuteri family, prominent in Badolato, who owned it until 2001. The owners, Judge Pietro Scuteri and the heirs of his brother Dr Giuseppe, donated it to the Municipality of Badolato on condition that it be used for social purposes. Today, more than twenty years after this donation, thanks to the joint efforts of local associations led by the Municipality of Badolato, public funding has been obtained to create a decentralised museum with a regional perspective. According to the project, the Palazzo Menniti will house movable artefacts representing the peasant and artisan civilisation. It will have exhibition rooms for works of art and rooms for artists who come to Badolato to study.

The Palazzo Menniti will be the centre of the museum, with responsibility for programming and management, not only in the traditional sense, but also through the use of multimedia tools, thus creating a wide range of opportunities involving numerous museum components.