Antiquarium Arborense - Museo archeologico Giuseppe Pau Oristano

17/06/2022 During the summer, the Museum Antiquarium Arborense will host the exhibition "The bronze people": ten full size mannequins with the reconstruction of Nuragic weapons, clothes, accessories and utensils made with the same ancient materials and techniques...

17/07/2021 Thanks to a miniature model of a Roman ship made by the Sardinia Romana Association looking at experimental archaeology, we will talk about the merchant ships that carried goods from port to port in the Mediterranean Sea: intense trades and a wide range of routes guaranteed the transport of food, amphorae, metals and pottery in every region of the Roman Empire...

23/05/2021 Today we talk about the Montefortino bronze helmet, one of the most important finds in the Antiquarium Arborense, and the panoply of a Roman legionary in the battle of Cornus, reconstructed by the Sardinia Romana Association...

23/05/2021 Thanks to a miniature model of a Roman trireme built by the Association Sardinia Romana according to the canons of experimental archaeology, we will tell you about one of the most important warships that sailed the Mediterranean Sea around the 3rd century BC. Light and fast, the trireme had an exceptional agility in manoeuvres and a high propulsive power...

19/04/2021 In this video, we will talk about a special edition of Sartiglia, in honour of the royal wedding between Vittorio Emanuele Duke of Savoy and the Archduchess Maria Adelaide of Austria. The celebrations lasted for 24 days in Turin and the city council paid out 200,000 lire (the equivalent of 1,100,000 euro), of which 15,000 lire was for charity...

09/04/2021 Today we will talk about two special editions of Sartiglia in honour of Charles Emmanuel of Savoy: in 1722 when he married Anne Christine of Sulzbach, and in 1724 when he married Polyxena of Hesse...

29/03/2021 In this video, we will talk about a special edition of Sartiglia in honour of the royal wedding between Philip V and Maria Luisa of Savoy, a marriage born as a pledge of the alliance between Louis XIV of France (the Sun King) and Victor Amadeus II of Savoy...

23/03/2021 Thanks to some precious documents kept in the Historical Archives, in this video we will talk about the first Sartiglia attested in Oristano, probably on the occasion of the victory of Charles V of Habsburg, King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, at the battle of Mühlberg on 24th April 1547 against the league of protestant princes...

17/03/2021 Thanks to some precious documents kept in the Historical Archives of Oristano, in this video we will talk about some special editions of Sartiglia, the famous medieval equestrian tournament that has been running for several centuries in Oristano for Carnival. Today we will talk about Sartiglia in honour of Saint Archelaus, the patron saint of Oristano city, which probably took place in 1616...

26/02/2021 Today we talk about the last martyr saint that we find in the retablo of the Holy Christ, on display at the Antiquarium Arborense. It is Saint Blaise, who died around the year 316 in Sebaste, Armenia...

09/02/2021 Today we talk about the proto-martyrs represented in the retablo of the Holy Christ, on display at the Antiquarium Arborense. Beràrd, Otho, Peter, Accursius and Adjutus were the first missionaries sent by Francis to Morocco to promote Christianity. They were expelled twice, but they returned each time and continued to preach until...

31/01/2021 Today we talk about another martyr saint represented in the retablo of the Holy Christ: Saint Stephen, the first martyr of Christian history. He was one of the first seven deacons chosen by the early Christian community to assist the Apostles in their mission...

22/01/2021 Today the protagonist is Saint Catherine, a young woman of noble birth, who was condemned to death by the emperor Maxentius and was martyred around 305 A.D. in Alexandria of Egypt...

18/01/2021 Torture wheels, pincers, saws, swords...oh, don't be surprised...Today we talk about martyr saints! The protagonist is Saint Apollonia of Alexandria, who was martyred in 249 A.D. She is the patron saint of dental diseases as well as dentists...

31/05/2020 The Antiquarium Arborense houses a Phoenician amulet (7th-6th century B.C.) which represents an itiphallic baboon crouching on a flat base. The find comes from the archaeological excavations of Su Murru Mannu in the tophet area of Tharros...

23/05/2020 The Antiquarium Arborense houses a marble statue of god Silvanus, which dates back to the 2nd century AD, from Tharros. It is supposed to be a statue of Genius. Raimondo Zucca has proposed the attribution of this statue to Silvanus, a god with human face, but sometimes it was depicted with goat's paws, hooves and horns on his forehead...

16/05/2020 This cup with handle belongs to the Pischedda Collection, the main collection of the Antiquarium Arborense. It dates back to the Final - Middle Neolithic or Late Neolithic period and it was found in the Sinis Peninsula...

10/05/2020 The archaeological collection Felice Cherchi Paba includes fragments of two bronze helmets from the area between San Vero Milis and Riola Sardo, in the Sinis peninsula. The most important fragments refer to an Etruscan Italic helmet called Montefortino, corresponding to the type A of H. Robinson and the type D of F. Coarelli...

02/05/2020 The term ‘quivers’ is used to describe triangular plate pendants with two eyelets, a miniature reproduction of a leather dagger sheath with pins (from one to four) on one side and two types of dagger on the other side, typical of Nuragic weaponry...

24/04/2020 The story of our Philistine sarcophagus starts in the area of the northwestern necropolis of Neapolis (the current S. Maria de Nabui (Guspini – South Sardinia), when archaeologists found two matching fragments of a ceramic vase with anthropomorphic face...

22/06/2018 Visiting Oristano for a day or more? Buy our saver ticket which gives you entry to the most important attractions of the city: Museum Antiquarium Arborense, Pinacoteca Comunale "Carlo Contini", Tower of Portixedda and Museo Diocesano...

20/06/2018 From 6th April 2018 until 7th February 2019 the archaeological collection of the Antiquarium Arborense is enriched by the presence of the temporary exhibition "Carlo Alberto archaeologist in Sardinia. The false Sardinian-Phoenician idols"...