Sassari, City Museum - “Palazzo di Città”

The Palazzo di Città offers an exhibition itinerary divided into two sections: the west wing and the east wing, accessible respectively from Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Via Sebastiano Satta.
The west wing houses on the ground floor the “Memory and Identity” room, which offers an immediate representation of places, memory and city identity, and the “Form and Image” room, which offers the graphic representation of the urban nucleus within the walls and a collection of nineteenth-century photographic images.
After passing the foyer, there is access to the theater space. The room has a horseshoe-shaped plan and a sequence of boxes arranged on three levels concluded by the loggia.
From the ground floor, through the monumental staircase, there is access to the representative rooms, among which the “Intregu” room stands out. Here, the homage ceremony of the Guilds to the Authorities takes place on the occasion of the Candlesticks' Faradda on August 14. On the upper floors there is an educational room and the room dedicated to the Candlesticks, while, in the attic rooms, supported by the original wooden beams, there is the clock mechanism dated 1867.
The east wing houses the City's History Documentation Center. On the two upper floors there is space for installations on the theme of traditional clothing in everyday life between city and countryside. The first floor offers reproductions of the clothes of the urban affluent class of the early twenties of the nineteenth century, together with watercolors by Giuseppe Cominotti (1792 - 1833) that illustrate them. In the same room there are reproductions of silver buttons and ornaments made by local artisans. The second floor houses forms of clothing for adult commoners, children and women who practiced humble crafts and small businesses. On the third floor, there is a museum itinerary, “Sacred and Profane”, divided into two sections dedicated to city religion, with particular reference to the rites of Holy Week and to the typically popular expressions of the festival, such as Carnival. The two aspects are well represented in the room by the works of Eugenio Tavolara (1901-1963) with the procession of the “Procession of the Mysteries” (1928) and the “Sassari Masquerade” (1937).
(updated text by: Thàmus Rete Culturale Comune di Sassari)

Why is it important to visit it
The Palazzo di Città, as a privileged place of representation and protection of memory and identity, is the heart of the municipality of Sassari. It is also home to the first civic theater built on the island, whose valuable architectural forms date back to the neoclassical refoundation.

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: History

Usability: Open

Province: Sassari

Common: Sassari

Macro Territorial Area: Northern Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 07100

Address: corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 35

Telephone: +39 079 2008072 +39 079 2015122

E-mail: infosassari@comune.sassari.it

Website: http://turismosassari.it/it/esplora-it/arte-e-cultura/item/272-museo-della-citta-palazzo-di-citta.html http://turismosassari.it

January - December

Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Special openings: Visits outside of hours are possible by reservation.

Information on tickets and access: Children under 12 years old can enter only if accompanied by an adult, last admission one hour before closing, closed on Mondays and holidays. Reservations, and other information, can be requested by filling out a special form on the site: turismosassari.it, on the contact page. In order to take advantage of the other offers of the Sassari museum complex, managed by the Thàmus Cultural Network, you can refer to the price list (PDF) that can be downloaded at the following link: turismosassari.it/... /tariff/_PDF.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 4 €, grownups, .

Reduced : 3 €, students from 6 to 25 years old, groups of more than 10 people, school classes of all levels, .

Freeware : 0 €, minors up to 6 years old, tour guides and accompanying teachers, disabled people and carers, .

Cumulative integer : 10 €, grownups, visit to the Palazzo di Città, the Duke's Rooms and Cellars at the Palazzo Ducale, Fontana di Rosello, the prenuragic altar of Monte d'Accoddi, Domus de Janas di Montalè .