Museo d'Arte Siamese "Stefano Cardu"


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Cittadella dei Musei, piazza Arsenale, 1, 09124 Cagliari, Italy

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The Museum of art siamese (MAS) named Stephen Cardu, is located inside the Citadel of Museums, the museum center located in the Castle of Cagliari. Inside, there is, since 1981, the most extensive collection of Siamese art of Europe, the result of research Collector Cagliari Stefano Cardu that, in 1914, donated to the town of Cagliari of part of items purchased by him during his stay in Siam, now Thailand, and on the occasion of his travels throughout the Indochinese peninsula, China, Japan and India. Siamese The collection consists of paintings, manuscripts, bronze Buddhist sculptures, ivory, wood, silver niello and cantilevered, dating from the seventeenth-nineteenth century. The collection also includes a unique collection of weapons from East Asia in southern Italy. Dall 'in April 2011, the MAS is also home to the Canese Fund for Burma, consists of sculptures in wood, bronze, lacquer and stone, dating mainly from the late thirteenth and early nineteenth century. The Fund also includes 5 books manuscripts, two ceremonial fans, six bronze punches for tattoos, exquisitely worked vases in gold lacquer and inlaid with glass paste of multiple colors.


The museum offers guided tours services and educational workshops for schools of all levels held by art historians and anthropologists of the Cultural Association Orient, by reservation at number 070 651 888.


The entrance fee: full ticket: € 2.00 reduced ticket: € 1.00 Free for over 65



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