Ortacesus, Wheat Museum

In the town of Ortacesus, along the main road that leads to the nearby town of Guasila, there is a peasant house of the “court” type that belonged to the Serra family, in which a museum dedicated entirely to wheat has been set up.
The museum was designed to document the tradition in the cultivation and use of wheat. Trexenta, in fact, the area in the center of which the small town of Ortacesus is located, is an area specialized, since ancient times, in extensive cereal cultivation and in the production of durum wheat.
The documentary value of the museum is mainly due to the abundance of the material on display, recovered locally and in some countries of the district, thanks to the collaboration of the population that has become the protagonist of the initiative and who, often, has also donated artifacts and tools.
A curious feature concerns the layout of the various rooms of the house, according to a criterion of the sexual division of labor: the spaces display objects of exclusive competence, now male, now female. They are those used by men and women dedicated to field work and to the care of the land, to the preparation of bread and to weaving.
A room in the museum is available to visitors who want to attend the screening, on a continuous cycle, of a film on the sowing, processing and harvesting of wheat, made in the early sixties of the last century by the Danish scholar Weis Bentzon, who had stayed in Trexenta in order to document the “launeddas”.
A part of the museum structure is in fact dedicated entirely to Maestro Dionigi Burranca, a well-known player of “launeddas”, who lived for many years in Ortacesus and died here in 1995.

Why it's important to visit it
The guided tour, led by the writer Claudia Melis, head of the Wheat Museum, ends with the tasting of the main typical breads from Trexento, made according to ancient production methods. The educational itinerary also includes the activity of bread, raw brick and taste laboratories. In fact, we want to involve visitors in the rediscovery of traditional works and flavors. Among the most important pieces, the exhibition includes a grinding wheel for grinding wheat made of wood, instead of stone.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: Ethnography and anthropology

Usability: Open

Province: South Sardinia

Common: Ortacesus

Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 09040

Address: via Sassari, 18

Telephone: +39 070 9819027 +39 070 9804214

E-mail: sucorongiu@tiscali.it

Website: www.museodiortacesus.it comune.ortacesus.su.it/luoghi/2271724/museo-grano

January - December

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Information on tickets and access: Optional booking. Required only for additional services.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 2 €, grownups, .

Reduced : 1.5 €, groups over 10 people, .

Reduced : 1 €, school classes and carers, .

Freeware : €, , Over 65 and minors up to 5 years old .

Services information: Didactic-educational workshops: euro 3.00 adults; euro 2.50 for groups over ten people, euro 2.00 for students and carers. Guided tours: optional excursion “The Way of Bread”: lunch euro 7.50, euro 8.50, euro 9.50; museums euro 3.50 adults, euro 3.00 groups and school groups.

Update

21/2/2025 - 10:07

Services

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