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Although it is true that the 20th century has drawn to the close, it is also true that it remains central to the memory and cultural perspective of each one of us. We must distance ourselves from it in order to gain a better view.
With this new, more aware and focused approach in mind, the Gallery presents its collection as a journey along the emerging themes of culture and history in the 1800s and 1900s.
The new scientific organisation displays the artworks according to thematic and narrative criteria, which curators hope will both clarify content and at the same time excite and engage the visitor’s imagination.
The selected works ( 176 paintings and 38 sculptures) drawn a new identity of the Gallery and rebuild the fascinating taste paths of its foundation.

- Ground floor

The art at the great Expositions: large-scale format historical genre The portrait between Neoclassicism and Romanticism
The long sunset of neoclassical mythology
The celebration of Garibaldi between history and myth
Francesco Lojacono and a new image of Sicily

- First floor

The poetics of ‘realism’ in literary themes and genre scenes
Aestheticism and exoticism between the 1800s and 1900s
Antonino Leto and the fortune of Mediterranean landscape
Ettore De Maria Bergler and the lyrical Naturalism at the end of the century
Michele Catti and the inner landscape

- Second floor

The taste of the Venice Biennale between symbolism and modernism
Paths of the Italian 1900s
The 1900s in Sicily