Inaugurated in 2008, the Museo del Giunco Palustre is located inside the nineteenth-century Palazzo Villani of Acquarica del Capo. The museum, established to commemorate the presence of wetlands in Salento and to value the artistic history of marsh bulrush crafts, houses numerous educational panels that recount the different phases of the craftsmanship of the bulrushes following a sophisticated practice covetously preserved by the women of Acquarica, who worked as basket-makers. Among the various processes are illustrations of the harvesting done exclusively by men, the boiling, the drying and the zolfatura, which took place in special cubicles – the “stove” rooms - where coals were burned with sulfur. The weaving of the bulrushes was the final stage of the process and was ...

Housed in the convent of Santa Maria della Pieta, the Nuovo Museo Civico di Archeologia tells the story of the town of Ugentino in different chronological phases through the archaeological contexts and finds of the latest discoveries. The exhibition is articulated into chronological phases and is divided into thematic sections. The exhibition spaces are distributed in two floors and display archaeological finds ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages accompanied by educational panels. The dining hall, on the ground floor, houses a large model that reconstructs the ancient Ugento based on the studies conducted to date: Messapian walls, roads and cemeteries can be observed. The ground floor rooms also houses discoveries from infant burials, from members of the aristocrat ...

The collection, stored inside Palazzo Colosso in Ugento, is a compilation begun by Baron Colosso and continued by the late Adolfo Colosso, a passionate lover of local history. The collection is housed in the former stables of the homonymous Palace, covetously guarded by his sons Luigi and Massimo. The collection features 794 finds, ranging from the 6th century B.C. up to early Medieval age, in addition to which are examples of Modern age such as armors, weapons and cannon balls. The finds dating from the 6th century BC to the Hellenistic period consist mainly of local pottery like trozzelle and plates in reddish brown varnish. Alongside the ceramics of indigenous production are those imported from Greece like lekythoi attiche. Among the coroplastica / terracotta ...

The Museo Diocesano di Ugento  – Santa Maria di Leuca, strongly willed by Mons. Vito De Grisantis, was inaugurated on the 6th of July 2005 and is set in a building located below the Cathedral, which once served as a burial place for the clergy and for the citizens. The museum displays works from the cathedral and the churches of the diocese. The heritage of the Diocesan Museum of Ugento consists of paintings on canvas, devotional statues in papier-mâché, vestments, missals, scrolls, and antiphonaries and cartaglorie. There are also many other precious religious objects, mostly in silver, as the chalices, vessels and Eucharistic thrones. Currently, the structure is under renovation, but will be returned to the public in the short time. ...

In the birthplace of Don Tonino Bello, just across from the eighteenth-century Cathedral, sits the Museo Internazionale Mariano d'Arte Contemporanea. The museum houses over 350 Mariana-themed works of art, made by the most important exponents of Italian and International arts including Salvatore Fiume, Ernesto Treccani, Luigi Guerricchio and Alessandro Nastasio. The works possess both the legibility of the sacred and the tendency to experiment of contemporary art.   ...