An area of the Confetti Pelino Factory is used today for the exposition of machines, antiques, memories and rare precious objects related to the ancient Sulmonese art of confectionary. The museum, set up by Olindo Pelino, is intended to be a dutiful acknowledgement to the Confetti Pelino factory and to all of the ancient confectioners, not only form the Pelino family, who have contributed to the fame of the city of Sulmona with their skill from the late Medieval period onwards.

In the Pelino Museum all of the certificates obtained by the company in the main expositions around the world from the 1800s up until our days are kept, together with the patents registered in different European countries (and in very distant times), the first telephone in Sulmona, statues and portraits of ancestors, and a collection of ancient valuable bonbonnières.

In another room you can find the reconstruction of a 16th Century laboratory for the production of “confetti”; ancient auxiliary instruments, such as mills, a toaster, a threader, mortars, vases with ancient ingredients, multiple colanders for sugar syrup (used in the preparation of rosolio “confetti”), a peeler, a polishing-machine etc.

The change that occurred in the 1800s, thanks to vapour energy and then, around 1893, to electric energy is well documented, and the first electric motor, the first hot air convector etc. are exposed.

The prints, reproductions and explanatory boards help visitors to understand what the confectionary industry has meant to Sulmona and, especially, to link the present activity to the glorious past.