The Grazia Deledda Museum is located in the birth home of Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), in the historical neighbourhood of Santu Pedru (Saint Peter).
The home of the writer from Nuoro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926, is a typical house belonging to a well-off family from the second half of the 1900s. It extends across three floors, connected via an internal stairway, overlooking the street, now named after the writer, and a large internal courtyard shaded by large oak trees.
The house was purchased in 1968 by Nuoro City Council and given to the Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico ISRE, which established it as a museum in memory of the writer.
The museum houses and displays the writer’s manuscripts, documents, photographs and personal belongings; the visit covers all three floors of the building and continues out into the internal courtyard. The rooms offer the visitor a glimpse of the society and places which Grazia Deledda knew and lived in, as well as the culture of Barbagia and its Roman era; meanwhile, the history of the house is described in the porticoed garden.
