Opened in 1980, the Archaeological Museum is located in the town of Dorgali, in via A. Lamarmora, the town's main street (fig. 1).

Fig. 1 - The Archaeological Museum in Dorgali (from http://www.museoarcheologicodorgali.it/wp/museo_archeologia_in_sardegna/).

The exhibits on display refer to a chronological period between the Neolithic Age (III millennium B.C.) and the Medieval Age, and were unearthed from numerous sites in the territory of Dorgali, a wealth of more than four hundred units to date as is shown in the archaeological Map of the territory of Dorgali and which has been emphasised by various authors since the late nineteenth century (figs. 2, 3).

Fig. 2 - Room 1 (from http://www.museoarcheologicodorgali.it/wp/museo_archeologia_in_sardegna/).

Fig. 3 - Room 3 (from http://www.museoarcheologicodorgali.it/wp/museo_archeologia_in_sardegna/).

The museum is arranged in three rooms with a total of fifty-two display cabinets, and the exhibits are displayed in chronological and cultural order. The bulk of the museum collection originates from discoveries made by the Gruppo Grotte of Dorgali and Nuoro, from private collections donated to the museum over the years by Domenico Lovisato, Francesco Pisanu, Giovanni and Francesco Sale and from surface collections made in the municipality, while a smaller number of artefacts was recovered during the archaeological excavations carried out in the Nuraghic village of Serra Orrios, in the Giants’ tomb of Thomes, the domus de Janas Marras, in the Nuraghic-Roman settlement of Nuraghe Mannu, in the Grotta del Bue Marino and the Nuraghe village of Arvu.