The museum is housed inside an architecturally valuable building that belonged to Dr. Giovanni Porcu Duras, the town’s conduit doctor for over forty years, and his wife, donna Rosina Satta Mulas.
The rooms on the second floor display traditional Sardinian jewelry made by the Gavoese goldsmith Giovanni Rocca, and also in one of the rooms there are three traditional women’s dresses and one men’s dress: the party dress, the wedding dress, the widow’s dress, and a traditional men’s dress with black orbace gaberdine. The collection of traditional clothing came into being as a result of a number of acquisitions by the municipality of Gavoi and a series of donations from a number of Gavoi families who were sensitive to the preservation and study activities undertaken by the museum.
On the same floor are the dark wood furnishings made in the 1920s
By sculptor Francesco Ciusa.
On the second floor, an ethnographic exhibition consisting of objects ranging from tools for agricultural work, grain processing and refining to folk games made mainly of wood and reed can be visited in several rooms.
The objects in the “jocos” collection are the result of important research, reconstruction and conservation work done by Gavoese craftsman Michele Pira.
