The Sardinian Flower Museum is housed in the stately home that once belonged to the Lai family. The renovated exhibition facility is dedicated to the main product of Sardinian and Gavoese sheep farming: the renowned Fiore Sardo. The museum tour is marked to create suggestions and develop curiosity and alternative points of view on a product that is not only gastronomic, but characterizes a human, natural and cultural world with an immediate communication between past and present.
There are installations, videos, images, traditional and modern tools related to the creation of the prized wheels of the cheese bearing the PDO. The itinerary itself is supported by the architectural choices that characterize the rooms, images by Slovenian photographer Žiga Koritnik, and videos from the documentary film “Fiore Sardo” produced by the Municipality of Gavoi and Ipotesi Cinema, and shot by director Fabio Olmi with his crew.
The building on the ground floor has rooms that bear the use of exposed stone and barrel vaults. These environments are designed for the creation of sensory and tasting paths.
On the upper floor is the exhibition layout of the instruments
traditional methods that were used for cheese making, in a marriage of past and present. On the walls of the rooms are niches displaying images created by photographer and artist Ziga Koritnik, documenting the different stages of cheese making. The second floor hosts the screening of the documentary made by director Fabio Olmi, an evocative narrative of the pastoral community and its production activities. The top floor of the building is often used for temporary exhibitions.
