The Piccolo Museo del Diario (Little Museum of Diaries) is the public-facing show of the Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, Italy's Nationwide Diary Archive, devoted to preserving centuries of written reminiscences from “frequent folks” all throughout the nation.
Based by journalist Saverio Tutino in 1984, the Diary Archive now holds almost 10,000 diaries in all shapes and varieties – genuine and personal tales from folks of all walks of life, providing a novel perspective on Italian historical past and an intimate exploration of what it means to undergo the journey of life. Tutino based the archive after visiting Pieve Santo Stefano, a city as soon as utterly destroyed by bombing in WWII, and deciding that the reminiscences of everybody, not simply well-known and historic figures, must be preserved for future generations. Due to his imaginative and prescient and the work of the Archive, Pieve Santo Stefano is now often known as the Città del Diario, the Metropolis of Diaries.
The museum shows simply a few of the Archive's assortment, utilizing a mixture of audio, video, gentle, and picture parts to take guests into the guts of those private tales. As you hear, see, and contact the numerous tales of the Archive, you may start to really feel the shared sense of humanity that's on the at core of the Museum's mission.
