Accademia Federiciana

It is always closed. Even the only day a week it should be, they don't open. On their website they praise and boast their 'exceptional' and 'very private' collection, which, however, they explain is' open to all scholars and non-scholars. In reality it is not true because, in fact, they do not even open. Not even by reservation as they always write on their site. To the email I wrote they replied with a dry 'at the moment it is not possible to view it'. In short, a total disappointment, which shows once again how the culture, the works of art and the finds located in Sicily are not valued. I can understand that there may not be a lot of demand (and this is sad already), but that it is not even made available to those who are interested, is the worst thing. Also, as a geologist, I would have loved to have a look at it. And not because it was unique, all the faculties of geology have vast collections, but because it is interested in making a small contribution to this kind of places. Finally, they also forbid photos, to take them you have to make a special request that demonstrates how they are not then made public and also send them to him for verification. In short, things similar to those that happened in the USSR or in Yugoslavia when you could not take photos of the monuments. I repeat that those same fossils are freely available in every faculty. Among other things, I happened to visit museums in other European countries and these too were willing to take pictures. In short, it is a place with nonsense quirkiness.