Sardinian Ethnographic Museum

The Sardinian ethnographic museum (Italian: Museo etnografico della Sardegna), is the most important ethnographic museum in Sardinia. It is located in Nuoro, Italy and it represents the traditional life of the entire regional territory. ^[2]

History

The museum structure was built between the 50s and the 60s on the Colle di Sant'Onofrio, designed by architect Antonio Simon Mossa to resemble an imaginary Sardinian village. ^[3]

Collection

In the museums are represented all aspects of the material culture of the traditional Sardinian (clothes, jewels, weapons, masks, traditional musical instruments, work and domestic tools, etc). Collections include over 8000 items, most of them belonging to the period between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. ^[4]

All the traditional males and females clothes (around 80 in total), each of them representing different villages in Sardinia, are authentic and used in the normal life before the acquisition from the museum.

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