In the main road of Ghilarza, a lively town of the Guilcer, you can find the house where Antonio Gramsci, from 1898, lived with his family through his childhood and adolescence. Although the house has undergone some changes that have modified the use of its rooms, it still brings to mind a family which, even through adversity and economic difficulties, was able to transmit to him those values that are echoed throughout all his works.

In 1965 the Italian Communist Party bought the house and thanks to sardinian intellectuals and man of letters, it was transformed into a “Centre of Documentation and Research into Gramscian Works and the Workers’ Movement”.

It became the headquarter of the “Friend of the Gramsci House Association” and set up a relationship of collaboration between the reality and experiences of his life on mainland Italy and in particular with ex-partisans, unionists, men of culture and artists, who, at the beginning of the eighties all agreed on the restoration of the house.

It was the tireless activity of Gramsci’s nephews, Diddi and Mimma Paulesu, and the care of various man of culture such as Wando Aldovrandi, an intellectual from Milano that in the seventies and eighties was the bridge between the places where Gramsci formed himself and the international culture, to contribute to gather in the “Friends of Gramsci House Association” the fertile contributions that promoted the transformation of the house in a museum and  the promotion of gramscian celebrations that every 27^th April make Ghilarza a tribute place to the man, to the politician, to the ideologist, to his thought and to his works, traduced all over the world. These precious collaborations, for example with Cini Boeri, architect from Milano, permitted to prepare the exhibition made up of documents, objects, photos, finds and precious testimonies that reconstruct the most significant stages of Gramsci’s life.