Manno House is the result of a commitment made by the City of Alghero and the Giuseppe Siotto Research Foundation to remember the great historian and politician from Alghero and promote the city’s cultural and historical heritage. After decades of neglect resulting from the 1943 bombing, the ruins of Giuseppe Manno’s birth house were demolished between the 1970s and 1980s. In 2004 the administration purchased the area with the ambitious goal of building a museum and research center dedicated to the historian and politician from Alghero. The collaboration between the two parties has enabled the creation of a multipurpose facility (Museum and Research Center) in the oldest area of the city (dating back to the 12th century). The Museum has a considerable exhibition heritage, consisting of furniture, paintings, sculptures, prints, ancient books, correspondence, manuscripts and original documentation, of absolute historical and artistic importance, the result of a long research and acquisition work carried out by the Siotto Foundation over the years. The exhibition itinerary, punctuated by the most significant and representative pages in the Sardinian intellectual’s existence, offers, also thanks to the aid of multimedia supports, a glimpse of an era rich in transformations and central to the process of national formation of Italian history.
