The mission of the Orestiadi Foundation is to reveal the common matrix of Sicilian, African and Eastern cultures. The Foundation hosts the ‘Trame Mediterranee’ Museum (Mediterranean Weave Museum), which displays historical and artistic objects, from ceramics to contemporary artworks, from fabrics to multimedia installations. The Foundation organizes the annual Orestiadi Festival, dedicated to contemporary dance performances and theatre plays. Past events hosted Bob Wilson, Peter Stein, Moni Ovadia, Giorgio Albertazzi.

The “Trame del Mediterraneo” Museum in Gibellina represents an original interpretation of the Mediterranean cultural history. Creative contributions from the Middle East arrived in Spain and then in France through North Africa. At the same time, they left traces in Sicily (Italy) in both the visual arts and the material culture, enriched over time by the imagination of individuals and from the traces of a collective daily living. The Museum, founded in 1996 by Ludovico Corrao, is the result of years of research and purchases, and of meetings, debates, studies and seminars sponsored by the Orestiadi Foundation. It expresses an underlying idea, whose strength lies in its transnational and interdisciplinary character. The Museum is an unprecedented exhibition model, since it selects and displays paintings and artworks which are the materialization not only of various forms of artistic languages but also of aspects of everyday life, ranging from symbolic expressions in ritual dresses to e