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Museum in Samugheo dedicated to Sardinian textile art, from popular traditions to contemporary experimentation, with fabrics, costumes and educational workshops.
Special exhibition
Rugs, saddlebags and blankets from the Daneu-Tschinke collection, assembled in Sardinia between 1921 and 1925, together with documents, historical photographs and letters from the family archive. The collection now becomes a permanent part of the museum's holdings.
MURATS is a permanent demo-ethno-anthropological institution, established by the Samugheo municipal administration to safeguard, study and promote textile art in all its forms, from the material and intangible roots of the past to contemporary experiments. Samugheo, in the Mandrolisai, is a centre of excellence where weaving is still a historic and economic inheritance of the community. The museum opened on 14 September 2002, and since 2022 it has been part of the Sistema Museale Allai–Samugheo together with the Civico Museo di Allai (CiMA).
The purpose-built building at the entrance to the village covers 750 square metres over two levels, with exhibition areas, an educational workshop, a library, a conference room and a bookshop. It is surrounded by an area planted with Mediterranean scrub, which frames the Pietra Sonora by Pinuccio Sciola, a gift from the artist to the museum.
The permanent collection includes tablecloths, blankets, baby linen, saddlebags, towels, bench covers, shepherds' clothing and traditional festive costumes from across the island, largely recovered from local families' trunks. Among the rarest pieces are five tapinu 'e mortu from the 18th century, funerary textiles of which only eight are known to exist in Sardinia.
| Adults | €6 |
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| Reduced | €4young people aged 13 to 18, groups of more than 20 people and school groups |
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 12 |
| Visitors with disabilities | freeFree admission for people with disabilities. |
The ticket is valid for both MURATS and the CiMA Museum in Allai. Guided tours are included in the price. For the “Tessingiu” exhibition a single ticket applies.
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| Kids’ admission | free up to age 12 |
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Routes and hands-on activities for nursery, primary and lower secondary schools, also open to adults.
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Museum bookshop and library.
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| Guided tours | yes |
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| School programs | yes |
| Good to know | Guided tours are included in the ticket price. An educational weaving workshop is available by appointment; the educational programme offers routes tailored to age, from nursery to lower secondary school, also open to adults. |
