Arbus, AMAS - Antonio Corda Museum

The Antonio Corda Museum — Ancient Arts and Crafts of Sardinia (AMAS) originates from Rag. Antonio Corda's passionate research into evidence of ethno-demoanthropological interest, referring to the artisanal, domestic and agro-pastoral activities developed in Sardinia between the 18th and 19th centuries.
The collection today includes more than two thousand five hundred finds dating back between the 18th and 20th centuries, with a predominance in the 19th century.
Started out of personal passion starting in the year 2000 (and still in progress), the collection includes ancient ethnographic objects, with various artifacts (tools, utensils, furniture, linen and more), perhaps even double and triple as a genre, which, however, are different from each other in shape, size, color, decoration and so on.
The collected objects, once in common use, belong to a period of time that goes from the end of the 18th century to the 20th century, and are linked to various crafts of the Sardinian tradition.
In fact, the collection tells about more than fifty crafts from our island, ancient and less ancient, disappeared or still practiced. From here comes the name given to the Museum: “Ancient Arts and Crafts of Sardinia”.
On the other hand, there are 155 objects and tools of the traditional peasant work in Sardinia, 49 tools for processing fibers, 49 fabrics and 10 Sardinian wooden cases.
All dated between the end of the 19th and the middle of the 20th century, declared of cultural interest and of important historical-artistic and demoethnoanthropological interest by the Archaeological Superintendence of Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Cagliari and the Provinces of Oristano and Southern Sardinia and by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism.

Why it's important to visit it
The Antonio Corda Museum was created with the ambition of being an open, lively, dynamic, unique ethnographic museum. A museum with a soul, designed as a strategic pivot and point of reference to tell Arbus, its territory, its activities, its productions. But also a museum to tell the story of Sardinia, its ways of life, its culture and its identity, through its crafts. A precious testimony of the traditional culture of the Sardinian territory.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: Ethnography and anthropology

Usability: Open

Province: South Sardinia

Common: Arbus

Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 09031

Address: via Giardini, 1

Telephone: +39 335 8118720

E-mail: info@museocorda.it

Website: museocorda.it

Information on tickets and access: For information regarding the cost of any tickets, and to verify the museum's visiting hours, it is advisable to contact the structure in advance, by phone or email, and to visit the museum's official website.

Access mode: For a fee

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Update

10/3/2025 - 13:53

Services

Guided tours