The museum is located inside an architecturally valuable building that once belonged to Dr. Giovanni Porcu Duras, who was the town’s conduit doctor for over forty years, and his wife donna Rosina Satta Mulas.
The rooms on the second floor display traditional Sardinian jewelry made by Gavoese goldsmith Giovanni Rocca. Also on display in one of the rooms are three traditional women’s dresses and one men’s dress: the party dress, the wedding dress, the widow’s dress, and a traditional men’s dress with black orbace gaberdine.
The collection of traditional clothing was established thanks to a number of acquisitions by the municipality of Gavoi and a series of donations from local families who are sensitive to the conservation and study activities undertaken by the museum.
On the same floor, dark wood furnishings made in the 1920s by sculptor Francesco Ciusa can be admired.
On the second floor, several rooms house an ethnographic exhibition consisting of objects ranging from tools for agricultural work, to grain processing and refining, to folk games made mainly of wood and reed.
The objects in the “jocos” collection are the result of important research, reconstruction and conservation work carried out by Gavoese craftsman Michele Pira.
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