Sardinian Ethnographic Museum

Sardinian Ethnographic Museum

Instituto Etnografico della Sardegna
Location within Sardinia
Established	1976 (1976)
Location	Via Antonio Mereu, 08100 Nuoro, Italy
Coordinates	40.3169°N 9.3355°E / 40.3169; 9.3355
Type	Ethnographic museum
Collection size	8,000
Visitors	28,000 per year
Website	ISRE

The Sardinian Ethnographic Museum (Italian: Istituto Etnografico della Sardegna), is an ethnographic museum in Nuoro, Sardinia. Its goal is to display the traditional life of the island's people.

History

The museum building was built between the 1950s and the 1960s on the it:Colle di Sant'Onofrio, designed by architect it:Antonio Simon Mossa to resemble an imaginary Sardinian village.

Collection

The museum exhibits show all aspects of the material culture of the traditional Sardinian including clothes, jewels, weapons, masks, traditional musical instruments, work and domestic tools. The collection includes over 8000 items, most of them belonging to the period between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Included in the collection are traditional male and female outfits, around 80 in total; each of them representing a different village in Sardinia. These outfits are authentic and were in everyday use until they were acquired by the museum.