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The ethnographic museum occupies a building built in 1700 as a water run mill, which operated up to 1982. It was one of the 20 mills, in use along the banks of the Mannu River and the Billittu River, at the beginning of the 900s.
The mills were on the edge of the town and the water did not derive directly from the stream, but from mill streams that originated from “is nassas”, the precarious damming that raised the fluvial water level.
In 1998 the structure, that actually amalgamated two mills and still kept the two millstones working, was transformed into an ethnographic museum by the town council. In its twelve rooms ancient objects made by farmers, shepherds, wine makers, shoe makers, weavers and objects from other traditional professions are preserved.
