ince the second half of the 18th century, members of the Cammarata family have stood out for their  civil sense and  love for culture. Estate called for scholarship, cult of beauty, hospitality towards foreign travellers. They were not an isolated example since eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Sicily boasts keen connoisseurs of arts and science, closely linked both by friendship and frequent exchange of letters  also with intellectuals from all over Europe, which kept the island in an international context.
The figure of a learned aristocrat, who was a scholar, a researcher and, as a result, a collector, finds in Sicily renowned examples such as the Prince of Biscati, the trustee of a museum of “rare and beautiful things” in Catania, Baron Mandralisca of Cefalù, Mr Gabriele Castelli of Torremuzza, Mr Saverio Landolina, the first trustee of the first “public” archaeological collection in Siracusa, Baron Judica of Palazzolo and many more.
The interest for the ancient world implied being skilled in every knowledge and having an often excessive range of intellectual interests. Such an attitude was the basic principle of many - not only archaeological - collections, some of which have luckily reached us and enable us to trace back both their determining circumstances and the environments where they aroused interest.
Inspired by a deep love for art, for about thirty years now Enzo Cammarata has created an important and varied collection of vintage objects and furniture. The vestiges of his family tradition (mainly linked to the life of one of his ancestors, Domenico Cammarata, a scholar of the mid 19th century from Piazza Armerina) have been the ideal foundation to rebuild a collection which is closely connected to that ancient passion."Museo Enzo Cammarata" è ubicato all’interno dell’antica villa settecentesca di notevole pregio architettonico, considerata bene di valore storico.