The story is worthy of the best of the yellow, complete with a scam, and sees as protagonists no less than a sovereign and a skilled official of the state. It tells of the sale of 330 fake bronzes to Carlo Alberto di Savoia by the Director of the Museum of Cagliari Gaetano Cara.

Part of that collection, 70 bronzes, is currently on display in the Royal Museums of Turin, but the largest part, 150 bronzes, is on display at the Antiquarium Arborense in Oristano from 6 April.

The Museum of Oristano, to celebrate its eighty years (it was born in 1938), thanks to the synergy between the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Cagliari (Superintendent Fausto Martino) and the Royal Museums of Turin (Director Enrica Pagella), presents a story that continues the one, opened on 22 March 2018 in the rooms of the Museum of Antiquities of Turin (Director Gabriella Pantò), on Carlo Alberto Archaeologist in Sardinia.

King Carlo Alberto was actually an archaeologist in Sardinia, carrying out several archaeological excavations, at the nuraghe Santu Antine di Torralba and at Turris Libisonis in 1829, at Nora and Tharros in 1841 and at Olbia in 1843, with the special participation in these last three excavations by the Director of the Museum of Cagliari Gaetano Cara.

Gaetano Cara, born in 1803, from Cagliari, was the true master of the Cagliari museums (zoological, mineralogical, archaeological) of the Cagliari University. Tied by close friendship with Alberto Lamarmora, revelator, with his studies, of Sardinia on the European continent, and with his contemporaries Giovanni Spano, from Ploagh, and Efisio Luigi Tocco from Cagliari, both archaeologists.