Siddi, Museum of Agri-Food Traditions of Sardinia - Casa Steri

The museum is located in a typical Campidanese manor house, the seventeenth-century Steri house, located in the heart of the historic center of Siddi, a charming town in Marmilla, close to the impressive bell tower of the parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary.
The building is characterized by the rich structure of domestic spaces, divided into living rooms, but also into rooms for the transformation of agricultural and pastoral products and shelters for work and yard animals.
Starting from the customs of daily and festive life and from agricultural production cycles, the exhibition spaces can all be traced back to rediscovering the food history of Sardinia and the traditional ways of producing, transforming and preserving food starting from the Nuragic period.
The tour begins with the spaces dedicated to the oil and milk cycle, to move on to the grain mill, with a very rare horse mill, dating back to the 18th century. The ancient kitchen of the seventeenth century is, then, one of the most suggestive rooms in the house, with its monumental stove, “sa forredda” for roasting meat, the niche for the jugs and the bread room that contains an exhibition of sieves, baskets, baskets and clay “civeddas”.
The museum tour ends with a visit to the barn, where agricultural work tools, animal marks and measures are exhibited. In the stables there are some equipment for winemaking and field work.
The exhibition is accompanied by texts on agrarian cycles and the history of nutrition in Sardinia edited by famous anthropologists. A part of the museum, the reception room with walls painted in the 1920s with Art Nouveau motifs, often hosts temporary exhibitions and workshops.
A very important, leading role has been played by the people of the town, as the repository of local history and knowledge, both on food traditions and on the construction techniques of peasant homes. Therefore, oral testimonies have become the fundamental part of the written texts exhibited in the museum.

Why it is important to visit it
The museum is unique in its kind, because it reconstructs the agri-food traditions of Sardinia through the illustration of the organization of agricultural production cycles. The guided tour allows you to learn more about the museum as an educational space and as a space for the conservation of ancient knowledge. Furthermore, by exhibiting objects that have been in common use, the museum becomes a testimony of the cultural heritage of a people and of everything that an agro-pastoral civilization considers important in its identity, and that it wanted to pass on from generation to generation.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: Ethnography and anthropology

Usability: Open

Province: South Sardinia

Common: Siddi

Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 09020

Address: via Roma, 2

Telephone: +39 349 6304621

E-mail: museocasasteri@gmail.com

Website: www.museocasasteri.it

Facebook: it-it.facebook.com/museocasasteri

Instagram: www.instagram.com/museocasasteri

January - December

Wednesday - Saturday - Sunday

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Information on tickets and access: To check for any changes in opening hours and ticket costs, it is advisable to visit the manager's dedicated web page. The visit is also possible on days other than those indicated but only by appointment. The ticket office closes at 17:00.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 10.5 €, grownups, .

Reduced : 5 €, children from 6 to 18 years old, AICS members, groups over 20 people, .

Family ticket : 20 €, 2 adults and 2 children, .

Services information: The educational workshops are to be agreed depending on the number and type of laboratory chosen.

Other services: Educational educational workshops. The educational workshops are to be agreed depending on the number and type of laboratory chosen.

Update

17/3/2025 - 12:20

Services

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