Cagliari Turismo, the tourist portal of the City of Cagliari
Cagliari is a city full of museums that allow visitors to learn about its history, its traditions and its culture. For devotees, the itinerary that includes the museums of the Duomo, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Bonaria, the Archconfraternity of the Genoese and Blessed Nicola from Gesturi is particularly recommended.
The most important cultural center is the Citadel of Museums, which gathers the National Art Gallery with its magnificent retablos, the National Archaeological Museum with the precious testimonies of the Nuragic era, the collection of anatomical waxes by Clemente Susini and the Luigi Cocco collection (also known by the name of Ethnographic Museum). Art lovers can visit the Municipal Art Gallery which houses the permanent collection of contemporary Sardinian artists and the Palace of the City (Palazzo di Città), which hosts interesting art exhibitions every year.
Opened in 2008, it was created with the intent to combine the visits to the Botanical Gardens with in-depht monographs. The ancient art of wax carving comes back to life through model of mushrooms, flowers, carnivorous plants, insects and pollen.
View detailsThe exhibition is composed of three sections: the main one features items from the life of Beato Nicola of Gesturi and the documents from the process that led to his canonization.
View detailsLocated in the district of Castello, the Citadel of Museums houses some of the most important artistic treasures of the city, as the Archaelogical Museum and National Art Gallery.
View detailsThe Archaelogical Museum contains a rich collection of objects and artifacts about the succession of the island's ancient cultures from pre-nuragic age to the high Medieval period.
View detailsThe Museum contains a small section of contemporary art and sculpture as well as oils, coats-of arms, religious objects and paintings. The altarpierces are the most interesting part of the collection.
View detailsThe Ethnographic Museum is a huge collection of fine Sardinian handicrafts. It features textiles, jewellery, forniture, tools and carvings, dating back to the 19th and the 20th century, All items were collected by Sardinian magistrate Luigi Cocco.
View detailsIt contains many artworks belonging to different Asiatic cultures, but it is identified as a Siamese Art museum, to point out the origin of most artworks.
View detailsThe 23 anatomical models were moulded in the 19th century by the famous Florentine wax model maker Clemente Susini. The waxes bear the signature of the carver and are placed on wooden boards catalogued with captions.
View detailsThe Municipal Art Gallery is located inside a neoclassical building in the Public Gardens. It houses two permanent collections: Ingrao Art Collection (19th-20th century) and Sardinian 1900s Collection (20th century Sardinian artists).
View detailsThe Antico Palazzo di Città has been Cagliari Town Hall since the Middle Ages until the beginning of the XX century. It is located at Piazza Palazzo, in Castello district.
View detailsThe museum houses part of the Cathedral Treasure, including liturgical objects, various silverware, wooden statues and paintings, legacy of the previous archbishops of Cagliari.
View detailsThe museum complex features art and documents (16th - 19th century) from the churches of St. Eulalia, St. Sepolcro, St. Lucia. The underground archaeological area displays a street, a pit and a cistern, dating back to the Roman age.
View detailsThe museum houses the ex-voto of the survived of shipwreck, model boats, archaeological finds, church ornaments and the original wooden case, containing the revered statue of Our Lady of Bonaria, when it was found on the shore below the Sanctuary.
View detailsThe museum houses a collection of pictures, statues, silverware and vestments forming the liturgical equipment of the old church located in via Manno, destroyed by air raid in 1943. All these items were saved and collected by the Archconfraternity.
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