Giorgio Amarelli Museum of Liquorice, Liquorice museum in Corigliano-Rossano, Italy
The Giorgio Amarelli Liquorice Museum, inaugurated in 2001 in Rossano, now part of Corigliano-Rossano, displays tools for processing, marketing and extracting the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra, along with clothing, objects and manuscripts of the Amarelli family, who have produced liquorice for about three centuries. It is Italy's only museum on this subject.
The Amarelli family has produced liquorice for about three centuries; the company archive in Corigliano-Rossano holds documents from 1445 to 1986. The museum opened in 2001 and won the Guggenheim Impresa & Cultura prize that year. In 2004 Italy issued a stamp dedicated to the museum in its artistic and cultural heritage series.
The museum displays how liquorice production shaped the daily rhythms of the region for centuries, with equipment showing the physical labor involved in the craft. You can see the tools that workers once used every day to transform roots into the confectionery that became tied to this place's identity.
You can observe the production process in action on most days since the factory operates while open to visitors. It helps to allow enough time to move through the rooms and read the explanatory panels at a comfortable pace.
The factory preserves an original production area called the 'Concio' from 1731 where you can see the root bales and extraction equipment still in place. Walking through this space gives you a direct sense of what the work looked like when it first began.
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