Education Niscemi has a municipal library, named in memory of Mario Gori, born Mario Antonino Di Pasquale. Since 2006 located in Via IV Novembre in a 19th-century building. It houses approximately 16,000 cataloged volumes as well as a vast newspaper library. The Civic Museum is housed within the former Convent of the Franciscan Friars Minor. It was born from an idea by Totò Ravalli. Its creation is the culmination of 30 years of active research and the collection of thousands of objects, thanks to the synergy between the Municipality of Niscemi, the Lions Club, the Environmental Education Center (CEA), the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Caltanissetta, Europe, and the generosity of private citizens. It was inaugurated on October 7, 2018. The private library
Angelo Marsiano contains a collection of approximately 4,000 volumes, notes, manuscripts, and documents that the heirs decided to make accessible to the public. The building sits right on the edge of the precipice created by the landslide, with part of it essentially suspended in mid-air: the first 350 books were recovered through a complex operation.
Schools The Leonardo da Vinci Upper Secondary School is located in Niscemi. Founded in 1970 as a scientific sixth-form college, in the years that followed it expanded its educational provision by first introducing a language stream, then a socio-psycho-pedagogical stream, and in recent years a technical commercial college and a vocational college for agriculture and the environment, to which the classical sixth-form college was added in 2016.
Art The best-known artist in Niscemi was the painter Giuseppe Barone. Originally from Caltagirone but a resident of Niscemi by choice, in 1927 he painted the four medallion-shaped canvases for the Sanctuary of SS. Maria del Bosco, depicting events linked to devotion to the Madonna del Bosco, and, in 1929, a canvas depicting the Madonna, now housed in the Chapel of the Holy Water. Of the paintings, one depicts the town of Niscemi during the earthquake of 1693. There are several local poets, among whom it is worth mentioning Mario Gori, born Mario Antonino Di Pasquale, who was an Italian poet, writer and author of short stories, after whom a main street in the town and a school are named. No less important for his cultural commitment and historical research is Professor
Angelo Marsiano, an Italian historian and essayist after whom a school is named.
Events • Artichoke Festival is an event that celebrates local identity, bringing together agricultural tradition, culture. It is regional significance held in April, which attracts people from all over the surrounding area. ==World War II==