Museums

• Museo della Vite e delle Tradizioni Popolari Sarde - Nuoro
  
  Via Mereu, 56
  Tel. + 39 0784/242900
  
  This museum is dedicated to the life and popular traditions of the people of Sardinia. It boasts over 7,000 exhibits, which date back to a period ranging from the end of the 1800s to the mid 1900s.
  The museum is divided into seven sections:
  - Clothing
  - Jewels and amulets
  - Masks
  - Fabric
  - Bread
  - Musical instruments
  - Domestic instruments and utensils
  

• Museo Deleddiano - Nuoro
  
  Via Grazia Deledda, 42
  Tel. + 39 0784/242900
  
  The museum is dedicated to the writer Grazia Deledda (1871 - 1936) and occupies the house in Nuoro where she was born. She was the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1926 and is noted for her deep understanding and love for the island and its people. The house is typical of the region of Nuoro and dates back to the mid 1800s. The building was carefully restored recently and today re-proposes the original, architectural characteristics. The ground floor of the museum recreates the historic period in which the writer lived, with typical furnishings and objects from every day use. The various rooms are dedicated to documents relating to the writer, letters, newspaper cuttings and, of course, her works. On the second floor visitors can see the writer's bedroom with personal effects and a reproduction of the Nobel Prize.

• Museo Man (Museo d'Arte della provincia di Nuoro) - Nuoro
  
  Via Sebastiano Satta, 15
  Tel. + 39 0784/238600
  
  This museum is dedicated to contemporary art and occupies a beautiful nineteenth century building in the historic centre of Nuoro. The collection includes about a hundred paintings dating from between the beginning of the last century to the 1970s. Among the exhibits visitors can admire works of art by such illustrious painters as Antonio Ballero, Mario Delitala, Giuseppe Biasi, Giovanni Ciusa Romagna, Filippo Figari, Stanis Dessy, Mauro Manca and Costantino Nivola.

• Museo "Nivola" - Orani
  
  Via Gonare, 2
  Tel. + 39 0784/730063
  
  This museum is dedicated to the sculptor Costantino Nivola (Orani 1911 - East Hampton 1988) and is situated in the town's old wash-house, which was recently perfectly restored to its former glory. There are numerous extraordinary works of art exhibited, including the statues of the "grandi madri", maternal figures.

• Museo Etnografico "Casa Montanaru" - Desulo
  
  Via Montanaru
  Tel. + 39 0784/619624
  
  This ethnographic museum occupies a beautiful, characteristic building, which was recently perfectly restored to its former glory. The building belonged to Antioco Casula, known as "Montanaru" to the art world, famous for his poetry in Sardinian dialect. The museum is divided into three sections and traces the traditional aspects of the life and activities of the local communities.

• Museo di Scienze Naturali - Belvì
  
  Via S. Sebastiano
  Tel. + 39 0784/629467
  
  The Natural Science Museum is divided into various sections: mineralogy, palaeontology, entomology, ornithology, mammalogy, herpetology and malacology.

• Museo della Civiltà Contadina, Pastorale, Artigianale, della Miniera, dell'Emigrante e Carcere Baronale - Seui
  
  Via Roma
  Tel. + 39 0782/539002
  
  The museum is dedicated to the pastoral, agricultural and mining activities of the area and traces the history of the Sardinian emigrants and the inmates of the Baronial Prison. It occupies a beautiful liberty style building and boasts a vast collection of exhibits which bear witness to the historical and cultural aspects of the people of Seui. Visitors should not miss a tour of the Baronial Prison, which recreates the dramatic conditions of the inmates of the past. Visitors can admire the various furnishings, the women's cells, the recreation room, the men's cells, the solitary confinement cell and the inmates' outdoor courtyard.

• Museo Diocesano dell'Ogliastra - Lanusei
  
  Via Roma, 106
  Tel. + 39 0782/42158
  
  The museum offers an insight into the traditions of the territory and the history of the Ogliastra region and its diocese. The exhibits are divided into various sections:
  - section A: minerals, fossils and archaeological finds
  - section B: exhibits which trace the history of the diocese
  - section C: liturgical objects
  - section D: various historical testimony to the area's ancient past
  - section E: a collection of curiosities
  

• Museo d'Arte Contemporanea a cielo aperto "Su logu de S'Iscultura" - Tortolì
  
  C.so Umberto, 36
  Tel. + 39 0782/624634
  
  This "open-air" museum is dedicated to contemporary art and displays a selection of exhibits made from plastic. The large works of art were constructed directly on the site of the museum and reflect the natural environment, the history and the people of the area.

• Museo "Sa 'omu de Donna Nassia" - Lotzorai
  
  Via Gioberti
  Tel. + 39 0782/669423
  
  This house-museum represents the typical old country houses to be found in the Ogliastra region. It dates back to the 1700s and still preserves much of its original structure. Inside, the rooms recreate authentic scenes from the past and visitors can admire traditional furnishings and objects from daily life.

• Museo delle Statue - Menhir - Laconi
  
  Via Amsicora
  Tel. + 39 0782/866216
  
  This archaeological museum is dedicated to the impressive stone structures discovered in the area. It boasts about forty monoliths, some of which are of remarkable dimensions, which trace the development of the exceptional phenomenon of anthropomorphic statuary in Sardinia.