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Palermo Museums, Italy Luxury Vacations and Travel Packages International Marionettes Museum
Regional Archaeological Museum This Museum is in the old city center of Palermo, in the ex-convent of the Philippine Monks and is home to a large number of artifacts from the whole of Sicily, including the islands, and also to archaeological finds from the Etruscan, Phoenician and Greek eras. These important collections are testimony of Sicilian art, from prehistoric times to the late Roman period. Museum of Islam This Museum, which is housed in the wonderful Castello della Zisa, holds the testimony of Arabic culture in Sicily. The Sicilian Regional Gallery
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This extraordinary museum was founded in 1975 by the Association for the Preservation of Folk Traditions, and is an integral part of Sicilian culture. The museum contains the most complete, important collection of "pupi" or puppets in the world, together with the stage equipment needed for the traditional shows. The collection includes about 3500 examples of puppets, marionettes and hand puppets from all over the world, all made by hand according to the antique craftsmen's traditional techniques. 
This Gallery that is inside Palazzo Abatellis, houses some paintings completed in Sicily between the 11th and the 17th centuries, Arabic inlaid-wood objects, Moorish pottery and some marble sculptures.
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