Things to do in Province of Nuoro, Sardinia: The Best Specialty Museums

S’ABBA FRISCA PARK-MUSEUM A dip into the past to rediscover identity. S’Abba Frisca park-museum takes its name from our freshwater spring. The itinerary has two themes: natural and ethnographic, woven together in one journey. The museum has more than 4,000 items from farming and grazing life in 15 locations. The guided visit winds through plants used in folk medicine, dyeing and construction, among fountains, cascades and giant-stone pathways. Here there are mallard and other ducks, water hen, and tortoises living in water and on land. Among the museum buildings, there is the shepherd’s hut built more than a century ago of basalt blocks and juniper wood, copying the circular form of huts typical of the Nuragic era. Also: the enclosure for goats; the farmer’s courtyard with grindstone turned by a donkey; the blacksmith’s courtyard with bellows from the 1800s. Bedrooms with storage chests from the 1700s; the room for spinning and weaving with antique looms; clothing of times gone by for

The Nivola Museum in Orani is an institution devoted to the work of Costantino Nivola within the larger context of contemporary art, landscape and living traditions. The museum was established in 1994, a few years after the death of Nivola (Orani, 1911- East Hampton,1988) and has been expanding ever since. The permanent collection holds more than two hundreds sculptures, paintings and drawings by Nivola, who played a unique role in 20th century modernism as an artist who worked closely with architects. Aside from exhibiting Nivola’s work, the museum produces temporary exhibitions on a regular basis. These center mainly on the relationship between art, architecture, and landscape, with a special focus on artists and movements that were close to Nivola, whose friends included Le Corbusier, Jackson Pollock, Saul Steinberg, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder and many other protagonists of mid-20th century art.

Questo museo, il primo del nuovo secolo, inaugurato il 1° gennaio è il dono di Giovanni Guiso al suo paese d'origine: Orosei. E' un museo che dà cultura e divertimento, diversificandosi dall'austero museo-tempio dove si entra peccatori per uscirne purificati, si frequenta senza il complesso timore reverenziale verso gli artisti che all'interno dimostrano di aver saputo vedere più in là dei nostri poveri occhi; un museo confidenziale per favorire la riscoperta della cultura senza traumi e, dal punto di vista architettonico, senza il narcisismo di ristrutturazioni arroganti, restituendo al museo la sua vera ragione d'essere: ridurre le distanze tra artisti e pubblico nella speranza di riconciliare quest'ultimo con la cultura dell'ultimo modernismo più appoggiata dalle istituzioni che dal pubblico. Nel museo ci sono: - al piano terra ed al primo una colazione di 30 teatrini dal 1700 ad oggi; una collezione di abiti/costumi dal 1880 ad oggi; - al piano secondo opere e mobili d'arte.

The Multimedia Museum del Canto a Tenore is a reality truly unique in Sardinia, through the which, thanks to modern technology, you can learn about a type of unique singing in the world.