Ghilarza, Antonio Gramsci House Museum

"The house museum is currently closed to the public. A possible reopening date for the facility is temporarily unknown"

It is housed in the house where Antonio Gramsci spent his childhood and early youth, from 1898 to 1911, from seven to twenty years old. In the autumn of 1911, he left for Turin to attend the University, where he had enrolled in the Faculty of Letters. From moving to Turin until the end of his life — he died at 46 — he lived in furnished rooms, hotels, clinics, pensions, prison cells. This Ghilarza's is the only real house I've ever had.
The Museum House, in the historic center of the town, is a simple and dignified two-story building from the early nineteenth century, built of basalt, a stone often used in typical homes in central Sardinia. It is divided into six rooms: three on the ground floor, which also includes a small garden with another small room, and three on the upper floor. From the entrance, on the right, there is access to what was once called the “good room”; on the front wall there is a large reproduction on plexiglass of the moving letter that Gramsci wrote to his mother on May 10, 1928 and in which he remembers being served a sentence for not wanting to change his opinions, but of grieving for having caused her so much pain. In the room there is a public station equipped with a large touch screen, through which you can consult the digital version of the Notebooks from Prison written by Gramsci. Beyond the entrance is the kitchen with the cannitzada ceiling, typical of ancient Sardinian houses, and the ancient well. From the kitchen you can access what used to be the Gramsci family's dining room, where a station is set up for the public through which you can listen to or see the materials of the Multimedia Archive, documentaries, interviews and films on the life and figure of Gramsci. Among these, of particular importance are the oral testimonies of more than forty characters such as Pertini, Terracini, Longo, Silone and Basso, who were contemporaries of Gramsci, collected in the mid-seventies by Gramsci's niece, Mimma Paulesu Quercioli, in anticipation of setting up the Museum. The ground floor is completed by a small outdoor courtyard, a place where little Antonio and his brothers play, which houses sa'omo 'e su forru, where bread was once made.
The upper floor, divided into three rooms, formerly bedrooms, houses a museum itinerary, built with images, photographs, letters, personal items, which proposes the most significant stages in the Intellectual's life. On a wall, Turi's prison cell where Gramsci was locked up is reproduced. In one of the rooms, a bedroom with original furnishings is rebuilt. The museum layout and itinerary, designed in the mid-seventies, are the work of the architect and designer Cini Boeri and the Gramsci Institute researcher Elsa Fubini. The Gramsci House Museum in Ghilarza, already recognized as a cultural, historical and artistic asset, has been declared a national monument with Law 207/2016.

Why it is important to visit it
In the Ghilarza House Museum, Antonio Gramsci's material legacy is preserved and exhibited. It is a small corpus of objects for everyday use and work, toys built by himself and donated to his wife and children, tools for prison life that had been kept in Moscow by his wife Giulia Schucht and children Delio and Giuliano, and in Sardinia by his sister Teresina Gramsci Paulesu. These are the only objects that exist today, besides correspondence and books, that have belonged to Antonio Gramsci.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: History

Usability: Closed

Province: Oristano

Common: Ghilarza

Macro Territorial Area: Central Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 09074

Address: corso Umberto I, 57

Telephone: +39 0785 388600

E-mail: info@casamuseogramsci.it didattica@casamuseogramsci.it

Website: www.casamuseogramsci.it

Facebook: www.facebook.com/casagramscighilarza

Instagram: www.instagram.com/casa_gramsci_profilo_ufficiale

Information on tickets and access: The Antonio Gramsci Museum House is temporarily closed for renovation and redevelopment and it is currently not possible to indicate a possible date for the reopening of the house-museum. The ticket information shown on this form was in effect before the facility closed.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 4 €, from 25 to 64 years old, .

Reduced : 2 €, from 6 to 25 years old, over 65 years old, member of groups of more than 10 people and a companion, tourist guides registered in the Regional Register, .

Services information: Only the spaces on the ground floor are adequate for access by visitors with disabilities.

Other services: Didactic-educational and training activities also for adults, tutoring activities for young people from the National Voluntary Civil Service, for interns and trainees and for students engaged in school-work alternation projects; accessibility to the exhibition itinerary on the upper floor is guaranteed through multimedia aids; free wardrobe and luggage storage.

Update

22/4/2024 - 18:33

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