Museo regionale Agostino Pepoli

Established in 1906–1908 as the civic museum by count Agostino Pepoli and initially based on the private collection of count Sieri Pepoli and Neapolitan paintings donated by general Giovanbattista Fardella,[1] it is based in a former 14th century Carmelite monastery next to the Basilica-santuario di Maria Santissima Annunziata.

In 1921 it acquired count Francesco Hernandez di Erice's collection of cribs, ceramics and archaeological objects In 1925 it became the Regio museo, after the Second World War it became a national museum and finally in 1977 (when responsibility for cultural assets was devolved to the Italian regions) it was again renamed, this time the museum of the Sicilian Region.

[4] It is subdivided into five main sections: The museum houses a large collection of paintings, cribs, sculpture and decorative arts, including works by Antonello Gagini and in coral and silver.

The paintings include works by Titian (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) and Giacomo Balla (a portrait of Nunzio Nasi),[5] a 15th-century Valencian Madonna and Child with Angels, a 1380 Pietà by Roberto d'Oderisio and a St Andrew by the Flemish artist Geronimo Gerardi.

The collection includes archaeological remains from the province (in 2009 Edipuglia published a catalogue of the Museum's archaeological collections[6]) and historical relics of the Risorgimento era from Trapani, including a Bourbon-era guillotine and the ensign of the Lombardo, which brought Garibaldi and "The Thousand" to Sicily.