Sassari, after six years the "Sanna" museum reopens
The director Elisabetta Grassi: "It will be a museum open to the contemporary world and to collaborations with associations and universities"
From the Lower Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, passing through the Nuragic civilization and the Roman era. An elegant and slender setting, made to catch the eye of even the youngest visitors. The National Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum "Giovanni Antonio Sanna" has reopened its doors to the public. Completely, after six years.
The inauguration took place tonight in the presence of Luana Toniolo, director of the Regional Directorate of Sardinia Museums in the presentation, and the director of the Sassari Museum Elisabetta Grassi, who anticipated: “It will be a living museum, more accessible also from a cognitive point of view. It will be open to the contemporary and to collaborations with associations and universities with which we will plan the initiatives ".
The Director General of the Museums, Massimo Osanna, praised the setting capable of “really speaking to everyone”.
The National Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum has been one of the symbols of the city for 90 years, built by a granddaughter of Giovanni Antonio Sanna, the entrepreneur, politician and patron who donated his rich collection to the Royal Antiques Museum, first housed in the Palazzo dell ' University of Sassari, provided that a special building was built.
The restyling and renovation project was born 10 years ago and it took six years of work to complete it.
