Municipal Museum \"Pietro Cavoti\"

Born from Cosimo De Giorgi's desire to preserve the collection of his great friend Pietro Cavoti, the Cavoti Civic Museum was established in Galatina in 1936.\n\nThe collection of works was donated to the Municipality by lawyer Raffaele Torricelli of Avetrana who, with a public will in 1931, left all books, illustrations of the Church of Santa Caterina, as well as prints, documents, engravings and paintings signed by Cavoti to the Municipal Library and the Museum.\n\nOnce housed on the ground floor of Palazzo Orsini, the museum was moved in 1970 to two large rooms of the former Dominican Convent where, in 1983, the historical-artistic collections were severely depleted by two thefts.\n\nThe current exhibition, designed by Maria Prato between '97 and '99, arranges the collection along a historical-artistic path that illustrates the history of Galatina from antiquity, through archaeological finds, to the 20th century.