Antonino Uccello Regional Museum House in Palazzolo Acreide

The rooms of the House Museum are located on the ground floor of the building; In the past these rooms were inhabited by the farmer employed by the large landowner, who occupied the upper part of the building. In addition to working in the fields, the farmer also took care of the preparation of the ricotta, took delivery of the produce and the tenants' taxes, and supervised the work of the oil mill. Antonino Uccello was born in Canicattini on 11 September 1922.

He completed master's studies in Noto. In 1944 he married Anna Caligiore and settled in Palazzolo Acreide.
He emigrated to Lombardy in 1947 and taught in primary schools in Brianza.

In the cold mists of the North the idea of the Museum House was born and developed. It arises from profound reasons and urgencies that have been pressing him for years: the loss of a cultural heritage by a people, the Sicilian one, who in those years were headed towards a tragic and devastating exodus. In Brianza, Uccello brings many objects from rural civilization and presents them in art exhibitions at famous galleries in the North.

These objects (wooden spoons, collars, orange wood nativity scenes, cart keys, iron sculptures, cart sculptures) went back and forth between Palazzolo and Brianza. He published his very first verses in Noto: it was his schoolmates who promoted the publication of his youthful poems.

But it was in Lombardy that he trained as a poet of refined culture: in Milan he frequented the cultural circles that gathered around Vittorini and formed friendships with Treccani, Chiara, Budigna, Bernasconi, Zancanaro. In this period he published his first collections of poems: Triale (1957), La notte dell'Ascensione (1958). In 1959 he published Canti del Val di Noto for the types of Vanni Sheiwiller, which mark and run in parallel with his progressive orientation towards the ethnoanthropological research.

Map: Antonino Uccello Regional Museum House in Palazzolo Acreide