MUSEUMS IN CAGLIARI

MUSEI CIVICI di Cagliari

Galleria Comunale D'Arte | Palazzo di Città | Museo d'Arte Siamese Stefano Cardu

Galleria Comunale D'Arte | Municipal Art Gallery
Public Gardens | Largo Giuseppe Dessì, 09123 Cagliari
Tel. +39 070 677 75 98 | Ticket Office +39 070 677 6454

The Municipal Art Gallery re‑opens to the public on Tuesday 16 September, with the usual hours from 10:00 to 18:00, after a brief temporary closure to allow works for the PNRR project. In this museum one can admire the Ingrao Collection and part of the Civic Collection of Sardinian Artists, with sculptures by Francesco Ciusa. From 27 June until 16 November, the first‑floor hall hosts a section of the photographic exhibition Isole minori. Note sul fotografico dal 1990 ad oggi, organised by the MAN Museum of Art of the Province of Nuoro and the Municipal Art Gallery of Cagliari.

Palazzo di Città | Town Hall
Piazza Palazzo 6, 09124 Cagliari
Tel. +39 070 677 6482

Throughout the month of September, the Town Hall will maintain its summer opening hours and will be open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00. The museum is hosting, from 3 July 2025 until 26 October, the extraordinary photographic exhibition promoted by the City of Cagliari, entitled Letizia Battaglia. Senza Fine, a tribute to the Sicilian photographer and photo‑reporter, known for her political activism. Organised by Electa in collaboration with the Letizia Battaglia Archive and the Falcone Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition is curated by Paolo Falcone and brings together about seventy large‑format photographs.

The Exhibition
The Town Hall hosts the exhibition Letizia Battaglia. Senza Fine, curated by Paolo Falcone, promoted by the City of Cagliari in collaboration with the Foundation of Sardinia, organised by Electa together with the Letizia Battaglia Archive and the Falcone Foundation for the Arts.
“Senza Fine” is a homage to Letizia Battaglia. The exhibition — while offering a unified view of a work spanning five decades — follows her way of breaking moulds with a unique project, spread across multiple spaces, where a wide selection of photographs narrates in an atemporal, non‑chronological, theme‑free manner the many aspects of her way of making photography.
Letizia Battaglia’s best‑known images handed over to history one of the bloodiest, most poetic, poignant and dramatic pages of Sicily. This exhibition intends to open up to a universe of photographs taken outside her homeland, key stops on journeys fundamental to understanding more deeply the whole of her work and her thinking. Photography, reportage and private life converge in a single path, which brings out the extraordinary sensitivity and humanity of the photographer from Palermo.

Letizia Battaglia
Letizia Battaglia, born in Palermo in 1935, is among the first female photo‑reporters in Italy. From 1969 she began collaborating with the afternoon newspaper L’Ora in Palermo. From 1971 to 1974 she lived in Milan with the photographer Santi Caleca and began photographing important intellectuals such as Dario Fo, Franca Rame and Pier Paolo Pasolini, documenting some of the cultural and social phenomena such as trials and demonstrations between Milan and Genoa. In 1974 she returned to Palermo, directed the photographic section of L’Ora from 1974 to 1991 and founded, with Franco Zecchin, the Informazione Fotografica agency active until 1994. She was an activist, photographer, publisher, journalist, director, environmentalist, Councillor for Liveability of the Municipality of Palermo under the administration of Leoluca Orlando in the years of the Palermo Spring, regional deputy of the Sicilian Regional Assembly, actress, writer and much more. She is co‑founder of the Sicilian Documentation Centre Giuseppe Impastato.
In 2021 she founded with her grandchildren Matteo and Marta Sollima the Letizia Battaglia Archive Association. She passed away in Palermo on 13 April 2022 at the age of 87. Since 2022 the care of her archive has been entrusted to the Letizia Battaglia Archive Association.

Guided Tours | Sunday 28 September at 11:00 and 16:00
Scheduled guided tours of the temporary exhibition.
Ticket cost: admission + €3.00
Booking required: Town Hall – bookings

Museo d'Arte Siamese Stefano Cardu | S. Cardu Siamese Art Museum
Citadel of Museums, Piazza Arsenale 1, 09124 Cagliari
Tel. +39 070 677 6543

At the Citadel of Museums the Stefano Cardu Siamese Art Museum offers the chance to admire the prestigious Cardu Collection, a collection of Oriental art donated to the Municipality of Cagliari by the Cagliari collector Stefano Cardu, a careful and passionate traveller who lived and worked for about twenty‑five years in Siam, present‑day Thailand. The precious collection gathers works of art and craft mainly from the nineteenth century, originating not only from Siam, which constitutes the predominant part of the collection, but also from Japan, India, Laos, China and Burma.

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