Museums Cagliari

Located close to the Cathedral of Santa Maria. The museum occupies a floor where you can admire the "Treasure of the Cathedral”: items used in celebrations, silver objects, paintings, crucifixes.

Located in Cittadella dei Musei since 1993. It has an exhibition of cultural facts and artifacts dating back to periods ranging from Early Neolithic, Middle Neolithic, Late Neolithic to the High Middle Ages.

The Sardinian Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography was founded in 1953 by Prof. Carlo Maxia. It collects within it many anthropological finds that testify to human evolution. Among these we can mention skulls, bones, costumes and objects used by the inhabitants of the area.

The “L. De Prunner” Mineralogy Museum is located inside the Museum of Geology and Paleontology “Domenico Lovisato” at the Department of Earth Sciences of Cagliari. It was founded in 1806 by the Viceroy of Sardinia Carlo Felice. The Museum exhibits a rich collection of minerals, such as argentite and phosgene and is open to the public.

The Physics Museum is located at the University of Cagliari. Its origins date back to 1626. It was born to collect and enhance the excellent work that physicists have done over the centuries. Today the museum houses a large collection of professional instruments, in fact there are about 400 devices and instruments related to the following areas: Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics and Mechanics and 250 appliances dating back to 1800. In particular, we can mention the electric dynamo by Antonio Pacinotti.

The Botanical Museum belongs to with Department of Botany, University of Cagliari and was opened in 2008. Here are exposed the scientific instruments used in past centuries. Of great interest.

The Sardinian Museum of Geology and Paleontology Domenico Lovisto is located at the Department of Earth Sciences. The Domenico Lovisato Museum inside houses a rich collection of about 600 fossil finds. It was created to collect and present to the public the history of the Earth, from the Paleozoic era to the Quaternary. The museum is available to the public.

The Sardinian Railway Museum is located inside the station of Cagliari, and was set up in 1985. The Museum offers a collection with more than one hundred testimonies resisted over time, retracing all the most important phases of the history of Sardinian railways.

A heritage consisting of 1272 works, including paintings, ceramics (Pula Fund), weapons, household furniture, gold, silver and textiles. The paintings, mostly altarpieces, range from the XV to the XVII century and belong to the late Gothic Catalan and Flemish culture.

The Anatomical Wax Collection by Clemente Susini is located in the Citadel of Museums. The museum presents a collection of anatomical waxes among the most interesting in the world. The collection houses 23 anatomical models in polychrome wax, from the different parts of the human body, both male and female. The wax models were made between 1803 and 1805 by Clemente Susini, in the laboratory of the Museo della Specola in Florence.

The Luigi Piloni collection is a collection of works of art and crafts. It was a collection by Luigi Piloni, who in 1981, donated to the University of Cagliari. The collection is exhibited in seven rooms, and preserves carpets, paintings, maps, handicrafts, jewelry, silverware and clothing. The “L. Piloni” Collection is located in the halls of the Palazzo dell'Università, and collects Sardinian works and objects by Luigi Piloni. Of great interest are the paintings dating from the sixteenth century, a table depicting Saint Clare, the burial of Christ, the Archangel Raphael and several Sardinian paintings by Philippine Della Marmora. In addition, there are a collection of 206 maps, a collection of prints, a collection of Sardinian rugs from the second half of the 18th century, and almost 80 pieces of silver accessories.

The Municipal Art Gallery of Cagliari is a museum located in the Palazzo dei Giardini Pubblici, built in the mid-nineteenth century. Since 1933 it has been the headquarters of the Municipal Art Gallery. The museum houses a collection of about 250 works including paintings and sculptures dating back to the mid-nineteenth century until the eighties of the twentieth century.

The Siamese Civic Art Museum “Stefano Cardu”, preserves the largest collection of Siamese art in Europe, collected by Stefano Cardu, who in 1914 gave part of the objects, to the municipality of Cagliari. In 1977 the collection was exhibited at the Civic Palace, and in 1981 it was transferred to the Citadel of Museums. The collection contains paintings, manuscripts, Buddhist sculptures in bronze, ivory and silverware dating from the 17th to 19th century. Of great value, are the precious okimonos and netsukes from the Meiji era, and the Chinese and Siamese porcelain, dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasty.