Palazzo Riso

Perhaps The West is lost after all 😱. I need a drink. Post to illustrate the sheer awfulness of this taxpayer-funded museum. Glorious palace building with C-list content. Not worth the 7 Euros. Don’t go. Palermo is choc-a-bloc with old crumbling noble palaces. Quite a few are restored by government with buckets of taxpayers money. Then the state museum struggles to fill it up. It never occurs to them instead to incentivise the private sector - or indeed the extant noble owners - by deregulating and tax credits and keeping the state nannies at bay. Take this one. Building and location are to die for. The Region of Sicily then renovated the ruin, and opened it as a contemporary art museum. The art content is so awful (compared with similar museums elsewhere in the world). This one also boasts two colossal courtyards, ideally suited for statutes. Instead, they harbour a circle of rocks which are not abandoned building materials, an upside down tree in rubbish bags, wasteland, and of course a pile of garbage (last photos) (it wouldn’t be Palermo without). Nobody goes. The eight or so staff play with their phones. Hard pass 👎 2/10

Awesome surprise that Palermo has such a well curated contemporary art museum. We were lucky they were hosting two very interesting topics the design revolution by Noto and Depero and his futuristic artworks!

Most of the exhibition is currently open and the museum was free to visit at the time we were there, Friday afternoon. Interesting space and artworks that integrate fully with it.

Very nice museum, always with interesting shows and precise information. The Berlin style unfinished renovation makes the shows even better.

It would be helpful to put on the homepage that the other rooms are closed. So we came there and not much was to see.

Normally I like art museums but I'd have to recommend giving this one a miss. Not much to see, and no butterflies exhibits.

The woman working on the first floor kept following a few steps behind me as if I was there to destroy all the art, which made the visit very uncomfortable. The exhibition is great and I would definitely recommend visiting, just hope this lady will be off that day.

Weird experience followed by the custodians at all times with between 1 and 2 metres distance. I understand that you need to keep an eye on what is going on but that was one of the most uncomfortable visits to a gallery I have ever had. It ruined the experience of the artworks.