The Sulcis agro-pastoral museum is located in the municipality of Sant'Antioco, in southern Sardinia. A restored 18th century structure houses this exhibition of tools of purely agro-pastoral life such as objects suitable for the preparation of cheese, agricultural tools, carpenters and blacksmiths. The museum exhibition is divided into two rooms, a covered part "su magasinu" and a large courtyard, typical of Sulcis. The indoor environment re-proposes the typology of the classic Sulcis "medau", inside which the tools for carrying out the various jobs are divided into sections. The dairy section is very interesting, with the tools necessary for the collection of milk and subsequent transformation into cheese; the section reserved for bread making is interesting, presented in its various and complex phases, thus highlighting the centrality of the role of women in agro-pastoral society. This is followed by the section on agricultural tools followed by the section dedicated to the work of the vine, with the tools necessary for pruning, pesticide treatment, grape harvesting, and the various stages of winemaking. Another important corner of the Ethnographic Museum is the one dedicated to the dwarf palm (Chamaerops humilis) and to all the stages of its processing. In fact, brooms, ropes, bags, brushes, various types of weaves are exhibited. All these objects were obtained from the dried leaves of this plant. Of exceptional importance is the sector reserved for the rare sea-silk, also known as "sea silk", and the "Pinna Nobilis", the large bivalve from which the byssus was made. From the information reported in the Bible to the Italo Diana weaving school that in the 1930s revived an artisan activity that survived in those years in the Antiochense families.
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