Located in the rooms of the Capuana Palace, the museum houses the manuscripts, works, library and paintings that belonged to the writer.
Of particular interest is Capuana’s correspondence with writers such as Ibsen, Balzac, Zola, Verga, D’Annunzio, Pirandello and others.
The photographic collection is a testimony to the writer’s passion: it consists of about two hundred images of various sizes and as many prints.
On the second floor are the works of art collected by Capuana, who visited the studios of artists such as Telemaco
Signorini, Michele La Spina and Natale Attanasio during his stays in Florence, Rome, Milan and Catania.
The building also houses the Municipal Library, the former Capuchin Library with sacred texts from the 16th to
the 18th centuries, and the Rizzo Fund, a curious collection of books and magazines in Esperanto.
