The Museum of Mediterranean Textures explores, researches and exposes through the forms and decorations of ceramics, jewels, fabrics and costumes, the links existing between the cultures of the peoples of the Mediterranean in artistic production.
 
The museum also houses one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Italy, testimony to the contribution that artists from all over the world made to the reconstruction of the city of Gibellina after the earthquake that destroyed it in 1968.
 
Il Baglio Di Stefano, seat of the Museum, in the ancient Granary exhibits the works of the Forma 1 group with the works of Carla Accardi, Dorazio, Sanfilippo, Turcato and Consagra; of the group of Piazza del Popolo, with Schifano, Angeli, Tano Festa and Mambor; of the artists of the last decades Boetti, Scialoja, Germanà, Nunzio, Genovese, Matta, Emilio Isgrò and Luca Patella with some charismatic presences such as that of Beuys.
The works of artists from the Mediterranean area are also on display, including Hakim Abbaci, Nja Mahdaoui, Moussa Traore and the Flying Carpet, an installation by the Stalker Group. The outdoor spaces house Mimmo Paladino's The Mountain of Salt, Richard Long's Circle of Life and the installations by Alfredo Romano, Peter Briggs, Francesco Arecco, Michele Cossyro, Ben Jakober, Salvatore Cuschera.