The Bellini Civic Museum is located in the center of Catania and is located in the historic Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas. The palace originally belonged to Gravina Cruyllas, one of the prominent families of the seventeenth century in Catania. Even today you can admire the coats of arms and the small chapel of the family at the entrance. The Museum was inaugurated in 1930 in the presence of Vittorio Emanuele III. Originally the museum was the native house of Vincenzo Bellini, adjacent to the Gravina Cruyllas Palace. Vincenzo Bellini was an important composer of the Sicilian nineteenth century and here he spent the first sixteen years of his life. The Museum is developed in five rooms and inside it preserves the works that trace the life of Bellini and his family. The museum collection includes books, sheet music, musical instruments, paintings and the composer's death mask. Of great interest are the collections of Bellinian autographs with numerous sketches. The Museum also houses a music library with the scores of Italian and foreign musicians from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.