Sardinian Art Collection "Luigi Piloni", Art and ethnographic collection in Castello, Cagliari, Italy

The Luigi Piloni Sardinian Collection occupies the ground floor of the 18th-century Palazzo del Seminario Tridentino, built by Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco, on Via Università in the Castello district of Cagliari. Its seven rooms display paintings, prints, maps, Sardinian costumes, jewellery, silverware and carpets on walls and in glass cases, with further objects kept in drawers beneath the cases and shown to scholars on request.

The collection bears the name of Luigi Piloni, who assembled it and donated it to the University of Cagliari in 1981. It is displayed on the ground floor of the university's 18th-century building on Via Università, the former Seminario Tridentino erected by Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco. The seven rooms were arranged to hold his prints, paintings, maps, textiles and jewellery.

Room 5 displays 82 small personal and devotional objects, among them 15 rosaries, 8 spuligadentes (early tooth- and ear-picks), a portaforbici, ganceras used to fasten a shirt or hold a handkerchief, and 4 amulets against the evil eye. Room 6 holds 32 coberibancus (chest covers) from the late 18th to early 19th century, 4 bertulas (saddlebags) from the early 1900s, mantas that doubled as blankets, and a tapinu 'e mortu, the carpet on which the dead were laid out.

The collection occupies the ground floor of the 18th-century Palazzo del Seminario Tridentino, built by Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco, on Via Università in the Castello district. Objects that could not be displayed for lack of space are kept in drawers beneath the display cases and can be examined on request by scholars. Guided tours, a library, a historical archive and an educational workshop are available.

Room 6 displays 140 of the collection's 206 maps, from a chart painted on parchment of the late 14th or early 15th century to seven maps by Alberto Della Marmora. One by Giovanni Antonio Magini (1620) turns the Gulf of Cagliari toward the east, an error copied by many cartographers until the late 18th century.