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Born in <strong>Cagliari in 1849<\/strong>, Cardu developed a passion for sailing and travelling the seas.  This passion pushed him to interrupt his studies and <strong>embark on a ship heading for south-east Asia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Following a shipwreck, <strong>Cardu was the first Italian to reach Siam<\/strong>, where he settled and <strong>began working as an architect<\/strong> and builder. He was responsible for numerous buildings in Bangkok, in particular, <strong>Prince Chaturonratsami\u2019s Palace<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He stayed in Siam for about thirty years, amassing a huge collection, including swords, figurines, porcelain, prints and much more. <strong>On his return to Europe in 1917,<\/strong> he left his immense collection to the city of Cagliari.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cardu died in Rome in 1933<\/strong> almost in poverty, but the city of Cagliari paid homage to him by putting his generous bequeathment on display in a museum named after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tipologia":[984],"categoria":[1027],"tematica":[1033],"class_list":["post-29890","place","type-place","status-publish","hentry","tipologia-museo-en","categoria-historical-artistic-asset","tematica-art"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MAS Museo d&#039;arte Siamese Stefano Cardu - Idese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idese.cultura.gov.it\/place\/mas-museo-darte-siamese-stefano-cardu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MAS Museo d&#039;arte Siamese Stefano Cardu - Idese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Located inside the Museum Citadel complex, in the Castello neighbourhood, the Siam Art Museum is home to the largest collection of Siam art (modern-day Thailand) in Europe, and the only collection of oriental art on the island. 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