Museum of costume and fashion

The monumental complex of Palazzo Cupane, of nineteenth-century foundation, is the beating heart of the Mese culture. In its rooms the museum of Sicilian Fashion and Costume has been set up, one of the exhibition spaces concerning the sector among the most important in Italy, which houses clothes and costumes from epochs ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century and inherent in all walks of life , from the nobleman to the farmer. For some years the building has also housed the Francesco Cupani study center. The latter, a Capuchin monk of noble origins born in Mirto in the 17th century, is one of the founding fathers of Sicilian botany.