Nino Cordio Museum in Santa Ninfa

Il Nino Cordio Museum it is a museum totally dedicated to the works of the aforementioned sculptor and painter, born in 1937 in Santa Ninfa and died in Rome in 2000.

History of the Nino Cordio Museum

The Nino Cordio Museum was inaugurated in 2007, set up in a former nursery school and within its large rooms are present beyond two hundred works of the known Sicilian artist born in the Municipality of Santa Ninfa.

Nino Cordio Museum: architecture and works of art present

In the exhibition areas of the Nino Cordio Museum it is possible to admire a large collection of his works created in all its phases of experimentation and activity.
Furthermore, a few years before his death, the master donated several works to the municipality of his native town etchings.
But that's not all, as his family members have granted free loan sculptures, drawings, frescoes and oil paintings.

What to do in the Nino Cordio Museum

The museum can be visited both with and without guided tours and offers the opportunity to admire the many artwork by the author Nino Cordio, watch the videos broadcast in a special projection room, visit an atelier room aimed at reproducing the master's working environments plus a theater room where various cultural events related to his creations are set up.

What to do around the Nino Cordio Museum

In addition to the Nino Cordio Museum, it is recommended to visit the library which takes its name, in which there is a collection of over seven thousand volumes.
The other points of interest offered by this small town are the Church of the Purgatory , Santa Ninfa Cave Nature Reserve.
The first, whose original name was Sant'Orsola, is a building built in the seventeenth century and after the donation by Luigi Arias Giardina to the confraternity of Maria Santissima della Piccola Concezione, it changed its title since the aforementioned was in charge of celebrating a daily mass in suffrage of the Holy Souls in Purgatory.
Inside there are three naves, a group of gilded wooden sculptures depicting the Child Jesus and St. Joseph plus another dating back to the eighteenth century which portrays the Virgin Mary with St. Dominic.
As for the Grotta di Santa Ninfa Nature Reserve, it includes both the aforementioned municipality and that of Gibellina and boasts an area of ​​great landscape and geological interest.
The area has also been divided into two zones and each has certain environmental characteristics:
- zone A: it is a karst cavity with an extension of 1,5 km;
- zone B: includes the Biviere Valley and is linked to karst-type phenomena.

Where is the Nino Cordio Museum

The Nino Cordio Museum is located in Santa Ninfa in Piazzale Aldo Moro.
Keep in mind that to visit the aforementioned attraction you need to call the Municipality to make an appointment.

Nino Cordio Museum how to get there

To reach the Museum, if you start from Trapani, you need to face a journey by car lasting just over fifty minutes.
It is possible to take the A29 motorway towards E933 or E90.
If you wish to avoid paying the toll, it is better to take the Provincial Road 29 plus the State Road 188 instead.