Italy Guide
Sardinia
Museo Archeologico
Address: Cittadella dei Musei
Opening time: Tues– Sun 9am–8pm
Price: €4
The Cittadella dei Musei stands on the site of the former royal arsenal, housing the city's principal museums. The main attraction is the Museo Archeologico, a must for anyone interested in Sardinia's past. The island's most important Phoenician, Carthaginian and Roman finds are gathered here, including busts and statues of muses and gods, jewellery and coins, and funerary items from the sites of Nora and Tharros. But the museum's greatest pieces are from Sardinia's nuraghic culture, including a series of bronze statuettes, ranging from about thirty to ninety centimetres in height, spindly and highly stylized but packed with invention and quirky humour.