Carlo Forte Civic Museum

The museum is located inside the eighteenth-century fort Carlo Emanuele III, built in the spring of 1738, the first masonry building of the then emerging town of Carloforte. Constructed at the center of a natural acropolis and designed as a guardhouse, over time it was converted into a district prison. 

The fort has been completely restored to host the museum which currently includes six rooms and a garden. The Tonnara Room contains artifacts and tools related to tuna fishing, a model of a tonnara, built by an old rais, which clearly depicts the calato, that is the set of anchors and nets that form a gigantic rectangular structure extending from the seabed to the surface. There is also an accurate scale model of the nineteenth-century Portopaglia plant, faithfully reproducing the various stages of tuna processing and preservation. In the Galanzieri Room are exhibited a series of historical documents about the boatmen, or galanzieri, and the main tools used during navigation and for collecting and transporting ore with sailing boats. The Documents Room contains historical documents from the early years of colonization of the island of San Pietro. Very interesting is the content of the Malacology Room which includes an extensive and fascinating collection of Mediterranean shells, especially from the southwestern Tyrrhenian Sea. The tour ends with the Peasant Activities Room with artifacts and typical tools of peasant life and the Emanuelli Room which exhibits the painting collection of the artist Mario Emanuelli. 

Hours:  from June 15 to September 15 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Thursday to Sunday) and 

5:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Tuesday to Sunday); 

from September 16 to June 14 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Tuesday to Sunday) and 

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Thursday to Sunday)