Mandas, “MahMu” Archaeological Museum

In Mandas, on Piazza IV Novembre, on the corner with Via Vittorio Emanuele, is the elegant Former Municipal Palace, once the seat of the District Court and the Schools, whose construction began in October 1859. Decommissioned and later restored, today it houses the “Mandas, Historical Museum” (Ma.H.Mu.) collection, and is home to various cultural activities.
The Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the metropolitan city of Cagliari and the provinces of Oristano and Southern Sardinia oversaw the discovery, collection and restoration of more than 200 archaeological finds found in the territory of Mandas, now available at the Ma.H.Mu.
The objects were in use from prehistoric times until the end of the Duchy of Mandas. The two introductory rooms display numerous almost intact artifacts from various parts of the territory: Ardiddi, Santa Barbara, Santu Saturnu, Sa Ruina and Su Proccu. Three other rooms are dedicated to the nuragic area of Su Angiu, divided as follows: the first contains evidence of the nuragic (protohistoric) phases, the second the anthropization of the site in the Phoenician era, the last the remains of the late ancient and medieval periods. The staff will be available to tell about the Nuragic spaceship, to show the jewels of the past, the coins, the lanterns, the enameled pottery. A journey of several millennia, discovering the traces left by the communities that have inhabited this area with a strong agricultural vocation.
The ground floor houses the reception room with paneling and multimedia monitor, some rooms dedicated to temporary exhibitions and educational activities. On the first floor there are more than two hundred archaeological finds found in the territory of Mandas, divided into five sections. The first preserves ceramic and glass materials. A big absentee in this room of the Museum is the 'votive navicel', currently preserved and exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari. The spacecraft was found in 1876, under unspecified circumstances, in the archaeological area of the Nuragic age called “Su Angiu”. In the room there are screens for viewing three-dimensional educational images. The next room is dedicated to finds belonging to the Nuragic and late ancient ages, coming from places such as: S. Barbara, Zeppuis, Sallai, Perdu Pigas, Ardiddi, Nuraghe Natzargius. The other three sections are dedicated exclusively to the archaeological area of “Su Angiu”. This contains finds from the Nuragic era (including, in particular, bronze elements such as the pin with a curved tip and the pin with an articulated head fused with the stem); from the Phoenician-Punic era (including the transport amphorae, the vagus in vitreous paste with “eye decoration”; the glass paste bezels; the fragment of a flat black-painted ceramic bottom with the remains of a Neo-Punic inscription with four graffiti signs, the Punic bronze coins of the I minor series Mint of Sardinia; the element bronze with an irregular circular shape); from the Roman era, late antique/early medieval (including imported ceramics such as black paint ceramic, black bell ceramic with decorations, Attic black paint ceramic, African sealata, lights, the jug with grooves and pale yellow engobe, the “Campidanese” ceramic bowl).

Tag

Structure category: museum, gallery and/or collection

Content type: Archaeology

Usability: Open

Province: Sud Sardegna

Common: Mandas

Macro Territorial Area: South Sardinia

POSTAL CODE: 09040

Address: piazza IV Novembre, s.n.c.

Telephone: +39 338 4592082

E-mail: info@museimandas.com

Website: www.archeomandas.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/museimandas

Instagram: www.instagram.com/museimandas

January - December

Tuesday - Friday

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Saturday - Sunday

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Saturday - Sunday

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Information on tickets and access: On holidays or in the case of events, the museum opens at the same times as Saturday and Sunday, unless otherwise specified. For updated information and online reservations, consult the dedicated page of the manager's website.

Access mode: For a fee

Tickets :

Integer : 4 €, from 17 years old and over, “MahMu” Archaeological Museum .

Reduced : 2 €, minors from 7 to 16 years old, disabled people, groups of more than 20 people, residents of the Municipality of Mandas, culture and tourism professionals, others (consult the website), “MahMu” Archaeological Museum .

Cumulative integer : 5 €, from 17 years old and over, Visit two museums in Mandas .

Reduced cumulative : 3 €, minors from 7 to 16 years old, disabled people, groups of more than 20 people, residents of the Municipality of Mandas, culture and tourism professionals, others (consult the website), Visit two museums in Mandas .

Cumulative integer : 9 €, from 17 years old and over, Visit three museums in Mandas .

Reduced cumulative : 5 €, minors from 7 to 16 years old, disabled people, groups of more than 20 people, residents of the Municipality of Mandas, culture and tourism professionals, others (consult the website), Visit three museums in Mandas .

Freeware : 0 €, minors from 0 to 6 years old, all routes .

Services information: Tuesday and Friday: Start of guided tours 15:45 - Saturday and Sunday: Start of guided tours 12:15 and 17:45

Other services: The museum also offers the “Mandas Pedestrian Route”, a guided route that follows the following stages: Old Railway Station, Church of Saint Anthony, Church of Saint James, Conventual Compendium of Saint Francis the cost of this service, for the same categories of museum users and of: €10.00 adults/ €5.00 categories subject to reduction/ free for children from 0 to 6 years old (see attachment: plan).

Update

23/1/2024 - 16:59

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