Il castello di Marmilla (Las Plassas, Sardegna) e il Museo MudA: una proficua esperienza di valorizzazione e le sue criticità

Abstract

[EN] As part of the study of the medieval castles of Sardinia, since 1997 I studied the Castle of Marmilla (Las Plassas, Sardinia), one of the border castles of the Kingdom of Arborèa. After having published a monograph and various scientific articles on the castle and the historical landscape, in agreement with the municipal administration we have studied, conceived, designed, and built a museum, the MudA multimedia museum of the Kingdom of Arborèa. Built at the foot of the Castle, it was inaugurated in 2013 and immediately met with considerable success among specialists and enthusiasts, obtaining important funding and recognition. In fact, thanks to a multimedia, multi-sensory and playful approach, particularly suitable for school-age children, the visitor is invited to immerse themselves in the daily life of a medieval castle thanks to the most recent technologies; he thus discovers how a medieval castle worked, how people lived inside it, how people lived in the small villages around it and what its historical context was. The archaeological finds from the excavations of the castle conducted in 2007 are exhibited in a corridor of the museum, that gives them back their shape, function, and existence. The finds speak to the visitor in first person in the language of the Mediterranean place of production and tell of their construction, life, and use. A cook then invites visitors to participate in the medieval banquet offered by the castellan to his king, with the tasting of all the products of that landscape in the Middle Ages. Various interactive games enliven the course.The difficulty in creating thematic and territorial networks with other homologous cultural sites, due to short-sighted local policies and the inconsistency of the new administrators, risks nullifying the existence of a small jewel of cultural enhancement in a territory rich in history but which currently risk depopulation.