Ossi, Municipal Ethnographic Museum

The Baronial Palace houses the Municipal Ethnographic Museum. The exhibition itinerary unfolds over three floors where the various rural environments of the last century are reconstructed and where, following the logical sense, the various tools and tools that were used by our grandparents to carry out the tiring work of the fields or craft shops, and to our grandmothers, with equal effort, for domestic work, baking, cheese production, weaving, the large family to run.
You can thus see on the ground floor, in the corridor that leads to the courtyard, the display of some tools that were used to work the land, hoes, plows, the harnesses of draft and pack animals. In the only room on the ground floor, the itinerary continues with the exhibition of the objects used to process the products of the countryside, of ancient weights and measures, of tools for the production of cheese, wine and oil. On the upper floor, in four separate rooms, the kitchen and bedroom were rebuilt, with antique furniture and objects, that is, the rooms that made up the only rooms of the peasant home, a hallway room (s'apposentu) where the housewives cooked, embroidered and received guests. In a fourth room, all the tools used by the carpenter, blacksmith and shoemaker are reviewed, which turn out to be the professions most attested to in Ossi. Three professions that, together with those of the farmer, the shepherd, the miller, the bricklayer, the basket maker, represented a complex work activity that made life in the town almost completely autonomous. Finally, the second floor houses the archaeological section.

Why is it important to visit it
The Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ossi, in addition to taking care of the ethnographic aspect, represents an important starting point for guided tours to the many sites in the area. The Baronial Palace houses the permanent exhibition called “The Places of Archaeology”, curated by Dr. Pina Maria Derudas. Part of this exhibition has been expanded into the archaeological section with models that represent the most important domus de janas in the Municipality of Ossi. Thanks to these insights, it will be possible to reach the sites with pre-established routes and all the information necessary for the visit. The Ossi Ethnographic Museum also provides a wide choice of educational and educational laboratories designed to improve knowledge of popular traditions and the territory.