Museo Ornitologico Della Sardegna

The Ornithological Museum of Sardinia is located in Siddi, a small rural village situated among the rolling hills in the heart of Marmilla. Overlooking the main square of the country, the museum is housed in part of the building that hosted the Managu hospital, rare and important example of functioning hospital in rural Sardinia in the second half of 800.

To Siddle is the only museum in Sardinia that has focused its attention exclusively on ornithological collections, providing its visitors an exhibition of some 300 specimens (represented in 19 orders and 51 families), all found on the island for more regularly . On the ground floor there is the exhibition area and that informative. Immediately after the ticket office, which also host functions, a first section introduces the history of the building that houses the collection and then, through a visual and tactile path, the evolutionary history of birds, from the "dinosaur with" Archeopteryx wings to beaks of various present day species. Followed by a series of windows, large and small, where visitors have the opportunity to contemplate, in a strictly scientific path, many specimens of birds. Completing this section cards and fact sheets on each exposed specimen, and a series of educational panels on the most relevant aspects of the biology of birds and the main types of habitats frequented by them.

On the first floor, passing through a large and symbolic egg, it develops another part of the exhibition area - more related to environments and territories, birds and more - and then the recreational-educational section, the media and the conference room . Here they find space an "eco-active" environment for a full-immersion visual, auditory, tactile and olfactory within the most significant habitats of the island and in the Mediterranean area frequented by birds: coastal lagoons and brackish ponds, and ponds Canneti d ' fresh water, pastures and agricultural environments, Macchia and woods, ridges and ravines, urban environment. The exhibition continues with the observation of a showcase where various bird nests are exposed. Help visiting giant screens, PCs, projectors and "links" only. Among these, cameras filming 24 hours a 24, without disturbing, and for scientific, informative and study, some of swallows nests built in a traditional house in the historic center of Siddi. There is also a didactic exhibition section aimed at use by people with disabilities, through a sensory journey and with the use of multimedia tools, they can perform the activities in an active way, alive and dynamic.

The museum areas are concluded with a shop stocked with books, DVDs, gadgets and various objects on birds and nature, together with the most important work of artisans and manufacturers of Siddi.

Opening days and times Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00 to 13:00 / 16:00 to 19:00 Monday and other times by appointment Entrance Full price: € 2.00 Reduced: € 1.00 (children between 6 and 12 years old, groups and school groups of at least 20 people, adults over 65 years old) Free: children up to 5 years, carers groups and school groups, people with disabilities (excluding accompanying persons).

History But just because an ornithological museum in Siddi? The idea to create it came in 2002, when the existing "Naturalistic Civic Museum and Mineralogical" was turned into "Ornithological Museum of Sardinia". The Municipal Museum, built in 1992 with the acquisition of a private collection that consisted of a large number of minerals from all over the world and many species of animals (reptiles, mammals and especially birds) belonging to the Sardinian fauna, Italian and in small part to that of other European countries and the world. The single-theme choice and Regional of the new museum is rooted in concern is the high number of birds found in the old collection, is the "Sardinian" origin of the vast majority of these. Together there were then the passion and the will to make a genuine choice in the panorama of the island, and the desire to contribute to a more careful understanding of the life of the birds and the places where they live. Today the collection has over 300 pieces. The idea is to complete it with all species present in Sardinia (about 360). The Ornithological Museum of Sardinia, owned by the City of Siddi, is part of an integrated management project with the Nature Park -Archeologico Sa Fogaia, and since 2002 is managed and administered by RTI called "Sa Fogaia", with direct management of Villa Silli Cooperative Society. Since 2008 the museum of the Centre CEAS Siddi (the Centre for Environment Education and Sustainability).