Villarosa Museum Train
The Villarosa Train Museum is housed in the carriages of a train in the Villarosa station. The station, destined to be closed, has been converted into one of the most characteristic museums of mining and peasant civilization in Sicily.
The museum, founded in 1995 on the initiative of the station master Primo David, it is made up of eight old wagons used for the deportations of Jews during the Second World War. These wagons have thus been completely restored and today they house objects, photos and period tools that reconstruct the tiring life in the mine and the ancient domestic hearth.
A guiding voice accompanies visitors inside the museum telling the life of the young people and miners who worked in the sulfur mines of Enna and Caltanissetta. One of the carriages is dedicated to the railway memory with objects, photos, telegraph, takigraph, lanterns and much more, the last one has been transformed into a real mine, with an old transport trolley full of sulphur, lamps with which the miners used to go down to the mine and hung on the walls.
Very rare photos are also exhibited that portray moments of life in the mine.
