Sassari, Francesco Bande Ethnographic Museum

It is located in an early twentieth century building, recently renovated. The museum is dedicated to the description of the life and activities of Francesco Bande (1930-1988), Bultei's great accordion and organist, composer and tireless popularizer of Sardinian traditions in the world, so much so that he personally collected the pieces from the collections on display: costumes, jewelry and musical instruments. Inside the Museum, clothes from the Goceanarium, Logudoro, Meilogu, Anglona, Romangia and Nuoro are on display. Among the women's costumes on display, Orani's festive dress, from 1920, with a shirt (“shirt”) knitted with needle and filet, jacket (“tzippone”) in red cloth, corsage (“shovel”) in embroidered light blue silk, skirt (“sa roda”) in pleated brown orbace; Bultei's dress, from 1930, blue, with embroidered butterfly bustier, skirt with flounce in blue silk; Bultei's 1930 wedding dress, decorated with decorated bodice with gold-textured silk and polychrome silk thread embroidery, pleated orbace skirt with “sa Dente”: a group of pleats obtained by stepping on fabric and inserting it into a rigid structure of tablets; Bultei's widow dress, wedding dress to which the black lining was added, as a sign of mourning, while the sumptuous gold embroideries were masked with black tulle, blue shirt with “needle” processing (“on sticks”); Bultei's widow dress, from 1930, with headgear (“tiazzola”), light blue shirt, ornamental Liberty motifs; Ossi's festive dress, 1870 with short velvet jacket with beads and floral patterns on the cuffs, shirt (“sa camija”) carved at the neck and in cuffs, rigid embroidered silk bust, black skirt adorned at the base with black satin, trapezoidal apron (“pannellu”) made of embroidered satin; Sennori's working dress (“su coipitu ruju”), early twentieth century, with headgear with “su tucchè” that tightens the hair, above “su velu” that surrounds the face and “on biccu” in white canvas carved with carving folded in various directions, bodice covered with white satin embroidered with silk thread, rigid brocade bust worked in gold and silver rowcloth, black pleated skirt with red satin flounce, embroidered light blue satin apron ('cameddu'), wide and elaborate shirt ('shirt').
Then on display are the diatonic organetti, reed instruments with keyboard that arrived on the island at the beginning of the twentieth century, whose first specimen belonged to the master Mario Bande, from Orani, Francesco's father.

Why is it important to visit it
You have the opportunity to watch live the performance of some traditional music tracks and learn some techniques for using musical instruments. The costume that belonged to the Bande, dating back to the seventies of the twentieth century, has a particular value, with important accessories, such as two silver buttons hanging from the sleeves, from the beginning of the century. On the back, precious embroideries on black satin At the neck of the shirt, embroidered, two buttons in gold filigree. Three precious jackets (“cosse”) in burgundy velvet and embroidery, also by the Bande, date back to 1948.
The highlight of the museum collection consists of the ensemble of musical instruments, diatonic organs, traditional clothes of the Logudoro and the Goceanarium belonging to Francesco Bande.