Mafia Museum in Salemi
The Museum of the Mafia and Workshop of the Legality of Salemi , housed in the former convent of the Jesuits , is dedicated to Leonardo Sciascia . The museum exhibits installations, works, collections of testimonies and documents that tell the story of the last 150 years of the Mafia.
The museum itinerary is characterized by ten voting booths , inside each of which the Cosa Nostra is treated linked to various elements: from massacres to the relationship with religion, from intimidation to energy and water management. In the following rooms a labyrinth leads to the chronological history of the Cosa Nostra through the reproduction of hundreds of first pages of newspapers.
The Sala delle Pale eoliche follows: a grassy mantle instead of a floor, which seems to continue naturally through the projections of a screen that shows the landscapes devastated by the wind. We then move on to the " Palermo felicissima " room, in which a real building abuse is reproduced, which culminates in the mummy of a dead man killed by the mafia set in a concrete pillar.
Followed by rooms dedicated to temporary exhibitions.
