A museum hub hidden in the heart of the city, yet rich in history, art, and quirks: guided tours of the UniCa Museums in the capital will continue on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th , departing at 10 am on both mornings from Via Università 32. The tour will begin with the vast Luigi Piloni Collection , before moving on to the contemporary art of the Muacc and the renowned anatomical waxes of the Clemente Susini Museum .
Of particular interest is the first stage, created in 1981 with the donation of over nine hundred artistic artefacts , collected over the years by the island scholar and collector Luigi Piloni . Over time , the gallery has become a shared cultural heritage for the community and the region. It is divided into seven areas, each dedicated to different subjects : from cartography to applied arts, including views of Sardinia and works on religious themes and from the modern school, featuring twentieth-century Sardinian artists such as Giuseppe Biasi , Carmelo Floris , Foiso Fois, and Mauro Manca . Also not to be overlooked are the precious traditional fabrics and jewellery, nineteenth-century prints and illustrations dedicated to Sardinian costume, and finally , texts signed by the collector, a well-known enthusiast of the iconography of his homeland .
This weekend will therefore be a special opportunity to combine art, culture, and scientific curiosity , thanks also to the visit of the anatomical wax models created in the distant two-year period 1803-1805 by the anatomy professor Francesco Boi together with the sculptor Clemente Susini , and modeled with disturbing faithfulness on the dissections of cadavers performed by Boi himself. Initially appropriated by Carlo Felice for his personal collection, in the 1960s the wax models were personally restored by the director of the Institute of Human Anatomy , who catalogued them, and finally .
