Museo della Tecnologia Contadina

About the museum

The Museo della Tecnologia Contadina was founded in 1976 within the Centro di Cultura Popolare UNLA, the volunteer body for lifelong education linked to the Unione Nazionale per la Lotta all’Analfabetismo, which was founded in Santu Lussurgiu in 1951 by a group of teachers and students. The museum was conceived by the teacher Francesco Salis, who oversaw its set-up and promotion through studies and research in demo-ethno-anthropology.

It is housed in an 18th-century two-storey manor house that once belonged to a local noblewoman: eleven of its twenty-three rooms are used for the museum. It holds more than two thousand work tools and everyday objects, donated by families of Lussurgiu and catalogued over more than twenty years of work, which document the agro-pastoral civilisation of the village and the productive activities of the past.

The rooms are organised by category: information panels, the bell-tower clock and the maize sheller; tools for working the land, storing cereals and for the work of shepherds and charcoal burners; implements for spinning, weaving and sewing; kitchen utensils; craftsmen’s tools; large farm machinery; water mills, millstones and stills; tools for viticulture and winemaking; cheese-making and olive-press equipment; and a room with archaeological finds. The collection is completed by work clothes, festive clothes and ceremonial dress.

Highlights

• More than 2,000 work tools and everyday objects
• Rooms on crafts: farmers, shepherds, charcoal burners and craftsmen
• Tools for spinning, weaving and sewing
• Farm and water machinery, mills and stills
• 18th-century manor house with 11 exhibition rooms

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione etnografica della civiltà agropastorale – More than two thousand tools and objects in eleven thematic rooms, from farm and pastoral work to craftsmanship, weaving and winemaking.

Founded

1976

Operated by

Centro di Cultura Popolare UNLA

Visitors per year

approx. 1,000

Admission & discounts

Paid admission; prices are not published in the sources consulted. Significant discounts are available for large groups and school parties.

Accessibility

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Kids & families

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Getting there & parking

The museum is at Via Deodato Meloni 1, in the historic centre of Santu Lussurgiu.

Amenities & dining

• Museum shop

Bookshop; conference hall and thematic library.

Events & venue rental

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