The museum and the mining park of the pumice quarries – Corriere.it are born in Lipari

by time news

The proposal was launched on the pages of Culture of the “Corriere della Sera” Gian Antonio Stella last May 31: to create a museum of pumice stone quarries on the island of Lipari to avoid the memory of that landscape and cultural heritage, abandoned for years, was lost. A request which then joined, with a series of interventions always on these pages, associations such as Museimprese, Federculture, the Touring Club and the Italian Commission for Unesco (the entire Aeolian archipelago is a World Heritage Site). And to which the Sicilian Region followed up two days ago, announcing that it had approved the creation of a museum and a geomineral park dedicated to stones of volcanic origin on the largest of the Aeolian islands that had fascinated Dumas, Maupassant, Carducci and where Curzio Malaparte had been sent to confinement by the fascist regime.

«The history of the extraction of pumice and obsidian on the island of Lipari has ancient roots and represents an activity of significant value, to be protected and promoted ”, emphasizes the president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci. “The regional government will work to ensure that this heritage is not dispersed, but rather is adequately protected and valued, starting all the activities necessary for the creation of the pumice museum and geo-mining park”.


The first step to bring that museum to life which for years has been the dream of the Aeolian Study Center, is to exclude the existence of bureaucratic obstacles related to the quarry. Meanwhile, the regional councilor for cultural heritage and Sicilian identity Alberto Samonà asked the Superintendence of Messina for a technical inspection in Acquacalda and Porticello, in order to verify the conditions of the establishments, including the old mill.

«The goal – explains the commissioner – is to create a museum and also a geomineral park with an educational function, to preserve the memory and history of the places and testify the extraction process and the history of pumice through photos, documentation, testimonies, objects and reconstructions of the production cycle ». Samonà hopes for the involvement of the University of Messina and associations: Federculture, Museimpresa and Touring Club have already written to the regional president and councilor, making themselves available.

An applause for the positive evolution of the proposal started by the Corriere della Sera comes from Antonio Calabrò, president of Museimpresa, who the day after Stella’s article had sent a speech to our newspaper to support the idea of ​​enhancing the heritage of the island. «The choice of the Region – underlines now – for the realization of the museum and the mining park of Lipari is positive and appreciable. And it is a responsible response to the cultural and civil battle started on the “Corriere della Sera” and then on other authoritative media outlets and supported by associations such as Museimpresa, Federculture, Touring Club Italiano, Sicindustria and by the honorary presidency of the Unesco Commission for Italy. Now it is a matter of quickly and effectively translating that choice into reality, to save and enhance a heritage that concerns the environment, industrial tradition and work and can contribute to increasing the environmental and cultural attractiveness of the Aeolian islands and entrepreneurship. of its inhabitants “.

Among the interventions sent to the «Corriere» to save the Lipari quarries, there had been those of Andrea Cancellato, president of Federculture; Giovanni Puglisi, president emeritus of Unesco Italy; Franco Iseppi, president of the Italian Touring Club.

June 25, 2021 (change June 25, 2021 | 11:12)

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