Casa Todde is an old manor house built in the second half of the 19th century. This is a large house on two floors: the upper floor, intended for the owner’s living quarters, included the bedrooms and dining rooms, halls and study. The ground floor, on the other hand, contained the kitchen, pantry and other utility rooms, including small storerooms pertaining to the house and employed by the owner.
These rooms, according to a widespread pattern in Campidanese houses, overlooked a large courtyard, where also all the other structures necessary for activities related to the agro-pastoral economy were located: the cellars, warehouses for harvesting grains and locust beans, rooms used for cheese maturing and storage, and those for agricultural tools. There was no lack of a well intended for the supply of water necessary for the lives of people and animals.
Casa Todde has been hosting the Capai-Pusceddu Collection of more than 700 pieces since August 2017. Formed over the years through the curiosity, passion for collecting and love of the sea of shipowner Giorgio Capai and his spouse, Candida Pusceddu.
The objects, which come to the Municipality of Villasimius thanks to a donation from Mrs. Maria Candida Pusceddu, find their rightful place in the rooms of Casa Todde and go to make up the Marine Museum of Villasimius, which, in terms of beauty and number of pieces, competes with important similar museums in countries with a great seafaring tradition (England, Portugal, Italy etc.).
Among the exhibits: compasses, rudder wheels, lanterns, a 1916 hull, sextants, graphometers, anchors, barometers, thermo-hygometers, astrolabes, clocks, binoculars, portholes, rocket launchers, model boats, and fine furnishings. The Museum is also constantly being enriched with new pieces thanks to recent donations.
