Antiquarium Arborense - Museo archeologico Giuseppe Pau Oristano

The spirit of this Museum

The spirit of this Museum derives from a precious advice given by Marcel Le Glay, one of the most important classicists of the 20th century, when he visited the museum in 1983. The French scholar was struck by the preservation of the spirit of nineteenth-century collectors: he could still imagine people anxiously searching for gold inside the tombs of Tharros and collectors who saved the treasure of Tharros from scattering. So Marcel Le Glay suggested to preserve the value of those  antiquarian collections in the Antiquarium Arborense.

Free advice: if you want to catch the spirit of a museum (even the Louvre or the Uffizi), please don't use just the baedeker but follow your journey through the collections and open your guide only when you have finished your visit. 

The Museum of Oristano has a retrò spirit, and you are invited to find it out...