Pozzomaggiore, Horse Museum

“The museum is temporarily closed for renovations”

In Pozzomaggiore, horse culture has a special meaning for the entire territory. Equine farming represents a significant economic reality and the horse is not only a cultural subject, but a valid means for the tourist development of the Community.
In fact, a series of routes have been designed, racetracks that cross a sweet and wild territory, rich in intense scents of the Mediterranean scrub and important Neolithic and Nuragic vestiges that attract tourists who visit them.
The “Horse Museum” is located in the rooms that were the seat of the Augustinian Convent from the beginning of the 17th century, until the second half of the 19th century and, later, home to the Carabinieri barracks on horseback.
The museum is spread over ten themed rooms in which the horse represents the common thread of a historical, anthropological and ethnographic story. Unique in its kind, it is organized according to common themes that underline the importance that the horse has always assumed in human life.
The museum is fully integrated into the territory as a dynamic and proactive organism, within which, in parallel with the layout and contents initially proposed, temporary exhibitions and cultural events are set up.
The Pesarin Donation is also located within the museum spaces, consisting of valuable architectural elements such as lintels, capitals, columns and stone jambs, the result of the work and skill of local stonemasons, saved from oblivion and the destruction generated by the renewal of the building stock of the historic center of Pozzomaggiore. The collection of these finds was carried out with great sensitivity and care by Mr. Pesarin and, subsequently, donated to the Municipality of Pozzomaggiore.
The Museum is also open on the occasion of local events, national and village festivals, with guided tours for both individuals and groups.

Why it is important to visit it
It allows you to deepen your knowledge of the importance of the horse in the social and economic history of man and in particular in Sardinia.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: Thematic

Usability: Closed

Province: Sassari

Common: Pozzomaggiore

Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 07018

Address: piazza Convento, 39

Telephone: +39 340 8070619 +39 328 3831764

E-mail: soc.pintadera@gmail.com

Website: comune.pozzomaggiore.ss.it/contenuti/39146/museo-cavallo

Information on tickets and access: The museum is temporarily closed due to renovations; the ticket data shown in this form were valid before the museum closed, for information on its next reopening, it is advisable to contact the structure at +39 340 8070619, or by email.

Access mode: For a fee

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