Ghilarza is getting closer and closer to the creation of the museum complex dedicated to Gramsci , in the land where the thinker and politician known throughout the world spent his childhood. By the end of the month, the team of architects, who won the expression of interest to give life to the important museum itinerary, will present the executive project. The scientific committee and the City Council will therefore have to decide and then proceed, presumably at the beginning of the year, with the tender.
A very important work for Ghilarza and the whole of Sardinia, financed with one million euros thanks to the territorial planning and the initiative carried out a few years ago with the "Vivi Bargui" project by the Union of the municipalities of Guilcier and Barigadu . The museum complex will develop over three spaces: the museum house, the recently renovated former headquarters of the PCI and the private house, between the two structures, purchased by the municipality.
The proposals for the construction of the future museum pole were to include, in addition to the Casa Museo, Antonio Gramsci's residence from 1898 to 1911 and today a national monument, the two buildings adjacent to it and the former Magistrate's Court. Compared to the initial idea, however, it was necessary to make changes , considering the constraints imposed by the Superintendency : the House Museum will therefore remain practically intact, except for a connection to the upper floor which will make all the spaces now off limits usable, even for people with disabilities.
«We are happy that this project is going ahead despite the difficulties encountered due to the constraints imposed. When we bring it to the Council, it will have to be specified that it will constitute a variant of the detailed plan of the historic centre. Once completed, it will be a beautiful structure capable of truly welcoming everyone: able-bodied people and those affected by disabilities will finally be able to visit all the spaces. We are also comforted by the increase in visitors and we are certain that it will continue to increase», says the mayor Stefano Licheri .
The Polo Museale project around the Antonio Gramsci House Museum is part of a more general strategy of recognition and enhancement of the places where the young Gramsci trained in Sardinia , promoted for some years through the activities of the Antonio Gramsci House Museum Foundation and the its cultural, scientific and institutional partners.
The director of the museum Paolo Piquereddu adds: «At the same time it will have to contribute to building and projecting Gramsci's many micro-places into a wider system that starts from Sardinia as the first and original Gramsci landscape and which finds respective thematic environments in the experiences of Turin, Russia, and in a possible itinerary of the prisons». The rooms adjoining the house are intended to house the services relating to access, reception of visitors, the book shop and a small room for seminars and conferences. «These environments - continues Piquereddu - will also have to present a sequence of themes/events associated with places and people that have marked Gramsci's life, from his arrival in Turin in 1911, and then to Livorno, Moscow, Rome, Turi up to the sad Roman epilogue in the month of April 1937. It is therefore a question of conceiving a space-time journey which, due to the limited space available, will necessarily have to resort to a series of "virtual rooms" associated with the objects/documents pertinent to the individual places recalled in the representation and in dialogue with the visitor through visual and sound devices, narrations, films. The Gramscian museum pole is required to perform a function of supervision, active protection and center of "patrimonial responsibility" in connection and in agreement with the local administrations and with the vast articulation of libraries, archives, associations. In this perspective, the Gramscian museum pole will be able to fully fulfill the role of cultural hub : hub as a place of contact between the various social actors, of study, analysis and interpretation of the problems of the territory and of active participation in policies for economic and social development".
Giorgio Macciotta , president of the Foundation, therefore points out: "It would be interesting if the Region thought about the possibility of using the great Sardinian intellectuals, therefore Gramsci, Deledda, Lussu, Satta and Dessì, whose homes have become museum houses in various ways, to organize a circuit in the 5 literary parks around these personalities. For three years we have been making a journey through the novenary of San Serafino , where the Gramscis had a house. It is very welcome." Now the construction of the important museum complex is awaited.