• DESULO - Ethnographic Museum
  "Casa Montanaru"
  
  ADDRESS: Via Montanaru. Tel. 0784/619624-619415
  OPENING TIMES: On appointment
  TICKET PRICE: On offering
  NUMBER OF VISITORS: About 3000 a year
  MANAGEMENT: Planning and scientific department run by the cultural Association "Amici del museo di Desulo"
  OPENING YEAR: November 1995
  MUSEUM SURFACE: 230 sq.m.
  NUMBER OF ROOMS: 9 on 3 levels
  NUMBER OF FINDS: 2000 different types of pieces. 1500 volumes.
  ORIGIN OF FINDS: Donations, personal furniture belonging to Antioco Casula

The Ethnographic Museum
"Casa Montanaru"

Ground Floor

Hall C
Weaving and tailoring "Su telargiu"
the hall hosts an old loom complete in all its parts and with the indispensable
accessories to carry out the work.

Hall D — Cuisine and breadmaking
various types of bread and the instruments used in the different phases of its preparation are present.

Hall E — Costumes

this room has three women's costumes and one male's. The costume represents the most original and socially signficant aspect of the "desulese" community. Their main colours - black, brown, red, indicated different conditions as for example normal daily life, widowhood and heavy familiar mourning, but also the persoanl and social condition lived in that moment. The male's costume, even if particular, does not differ much from the other traditional Sardinian costumes.

The Ethnographic Museum
"Casa Montanaru"

First Floor

Hall F — Montanaru Library

The library is still complete and has about 1500 volumes in which there is a collection of Italian and foreign classics published by Zanichelli - Bologna and by Vallecchi - Firenze; one of the first edition with corrections by the author of the "Promessi Sposi" by Manzoni; a a collection of novels and short stories, also by Sardinian authors; a collection of magazines among: Fontana, Viva-voci of Sardinia, Urbis et orbis, Mediterranea, Ichnusa, Natura e Arte. The catholic civilization, Augustea, etc. Many volumes have been donated with dedicated authograph by the same authors. The poet's precious letters are also contained.

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