Archives
Archival associations, repositories and individual institutions that preserve paper and/or audiovisual and sound documents.
The collection consists of about two hundred private dossiers of the Italian statesman, mostly composed of correspondence, writings and speeches, notes and memoranda generally handwritten and not infrequently unpublished, produced or received by President De Gasperi during his public life or collected by his daughter Maria Romana De Gasperi, who deposited the collection at the Historical Archives of the European Communities in 2001.
Born as a project within the Asinitas association, in January 2012 it became a cultural association. The AMM brings together a group of authors, researchers, filmmakers, and field workers, migrants and non-migrants, who are committed to the attempt to create a new way of communicating, which is participatory and interactive, and which leaves a trace of the ongoing migratory processes and at the same time allows the inclusion of other memories in the collective heritage of national and transnational memory. The AMM is composed of two work areas: the research group, which deals with the production and archiving of written and oral testimonies, and the audiovisual group, engaged in the production of audio and video documentary productions.
A professional association for the preservation and enhancement of the national public and private archival heritage that promotes activities and studies aimed at supporting the cultural function of archivists, developing and protecting their professionalism, increasing relations between archival experts and scholars and preserving and enhancing the archival heritage.
Set up in Turin in 1966, it collects and preserves all the films shot during the Resistance and those concerning the partisan war, the fascist and Nazi regimes, anti-fascism, deportation to Italy and Europe during the Second World War; it also collects video-recorded testimonies concerning the years between the two world wars, the period of the war and the partisan struggle, and the post-World War II period; finally, it studies the medium of film in general as a documentary source.
The census of the archives of cultural personalities in Tuscany between the 19th and 20th centuries is a project resulting from the convergence of the will of the Region of Tuscany, the Archival Superintendence Office for Tuscany, the General Directorate for Archives of the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities, Tuscan universities and a large number of cultural institutes to place in the public domain the fruit of several years’ work to collect data and information on a specific type of archives, those of individuals.
Present in every provincial capital city, for a total of 100 locations, they conserve the archives of the central and peripheral administrations of the pre-unitary States and the archives of the peripheral administrations of the unitary State, which are transferred to them once 30 years have passed since the conclusion of the file; they are endowed with technical and scientific autonomy and perform functions of protection and valorisation of the archival assets in their care, ensuring their public use, as well as functions of protection of the archives, current and deposited, of the State.
It was established in 2005 by three organisations: the Francesco Luigi Ferrari Cultural Centre, the Women’s Documentation Centre and the Historical Institute of Modena. Through an easy search mode it is possible to consult different archival fonds owned by the three institutions.
The Foundation, which was established in the late 1970s, carries out its activities in the field of audiovisuals (cinema, TV, multimedia, film and photographic archives), in order to promote the construction and dissemination of the histories and collective memories of social movements and their protagonists. It has always been committed to the research, collection, production and preservation of historical, repertory, topical and narrative reconstruction audio-visual documents, and to the promotion of their knowledge, study, analysis and processing for new uses and reuses. It organises research and studies, conferences, seminars, reviews and exhibitions on topics concerning history and society, the relationship between cinema, imagery and memory, and edits specialised publications.
Established at the end of the 1970s on the initiative of the Municipality of Prato in order to set up a permanent collection with particular reference to Tuscany, to promote studies and research on the heritage of images made with the photographic medium and to carry out initiatives to enhance and disseminate knowledge of photography, both historical and contemporary. It has a collection of images, a library with a newspaper and periodical library specialised in photography and a collection of photographic objects of historical and museum interest.
Established after 1870 to reunify the ancient archives, it has the task of preserving, enhancing and making available for consultation the documentation produced by the administration of the Municipality of Rome. It is located in the monumental complex of the Oratorio dei Filippini in Piazza della Chiesa Nuova, which was designed and partly built by Francesco Borromini.
Its task is to preserve all the documents produced by the Senate, both the Senate of the Kingdom and the Senate of the Republic. Alongside this preservation and documentation function, the Historical Archive carries out a cultural activity aimed essentially at making its archival heritage usable by the scholarly community and at integrating it with that of the State Archives, the archives and foundations of Italian political parties and groups.
Since 1991, it has also been open to the public, scholars and students from universities and schools to consult both the inventories and the various precious fonds that make up the Archive’s heritage: among others, the entire collection of the original bills presented to the Chamber of Deputies during the Kingdom period, the Commissions of Enquiry of that period, the documents and acts of the National Council and the Constituent Assembly, and the documents of the Republican legislatures.
It was created in 1989 and collects materials (newspapers, magazines, posters, documents, leaflets) produced by the New Left organisations and movements from the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s until today. The materials are kept at the Historical Archive of the Municipality of Bologna and consultation is possible by appointment.
The documentation of the historical archive of the Ercole Marelli company, declared of notable historical interest by the Lombardy Archival Superintendence Office in 1981, was transferred to the Isec Foundation in 1999: the photographic section comprises approximately 35,000 images; the archival documentation, 689 registers and 867 envelopes comprising 818 files covering a chronological span from 1896 to 1986; the technical company library, 642 titles including monographs and periodicals published during the 20th century; personnel files from 1945.
Founded in 1956 with the aim of taking care of the order and good management of the archives that most directly concern the history of the Church and ensuring their preservation. It has published a Guide to the Diocesan Archives of Italy.
The first Italian association of independent authors of audio documentaries was founded in October 2006 with the aim of promoting the production, dissemination and experimentation of audio documentaries in our country as well.
Founded in October 2002 at the University of Milan with the aim of collecting, preserving and enhancing bibliographic and archival collections of particular value and rarity. Starting with the first nucleus of works already owned by the university, such as the Alfieri fund, the Apice Centre has acquired libraries and archives of important 20th-century publishing houses, which together with collections from private collectors document the history of book and newspaper publishing in the modern and contemporary age, as well as its creators: writers, graphic designers, illustrators, printers, critics, editors. Apice currently holds around 60,000 volumes and numerous archival fonds, and constitutes an important bibliographic, archival and iconographic heritage available for study, research and educational activities.
Political propaganda has been one of the most important aspects of political communication in Italy. In this framework, a central place was occupied by the cinema. The protagonists of republican Italy – the great mass parties – used the cinema tool to win the consent of the citizens. It is on the basis of this observation that the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna, the Fondazione Archivio audiovisivo del movimento operaio e democratico, the Istituto Gramsci Emilia-Romagna and the Istituto Luigi Sturzo have launched a project to research, catalogue, network and study all the propaganda films of the two main Italian parties from 1945 to 1975: the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communist Party.
Brings together institutions concerned with the preservation of films, both as artistic works and as historical documents. Founded in 1938, it brings together 120 institutions in 65 countries.
A public archive that, since 1984 in Pieve Santo Stefano, collects writings of ordinary people, in which everyone’s life and the history of Italy is reflected in various forms: they are diaries, epistolaries and autobiographical memoirs.
The inventories of the Foundation’s archives available online are divided into sections: individuals and families, corporations, institutions and documentary collections.
The World of Archives is a publishing project born in 2006 on the initiative of Anai (Italian National Archival Association). It has always relied on the contribution of the General Directorate for Archives (Dga) of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (Mibact). In its third series, which went online on April 16, 2016, it is produced in collaboration with the Central Institute for Archives (Icar) and the Editorial Office of San, the portal of the National Archival System.
The State Record Library was established by law on August 10, 1928 as an archive of the voices “of Italian citizens well-deserving of the Fatherland,” chosen by the Head of Government and entered in a special honor roll. The Institute has the task of documenting, enhancing and preserving the national sound and audiovisual heritage implemented by the legal deposit provided by Law No. 106 of April 15, 2004. Its heritage currently consists of more than 300,000 media: from the wax cylinders invented by Edison, to records, tapes and videos up to today’s digital media. It also preserves a very rich collection of historical sound reproduction instruments: phonographs, gramophones and other equipment from the late 19th century to the 1950s.
The Istituto Luce Archives preserves a vast film and photographic heritage composed of its own production documents – starting in 1924, the year of its birth – and private collections and audiovisual funds acquired over time from different sources.
The archives of the Fratelli Alinari Firm, founded in 1852, and the collections of the Fratelli Alinari Museum of the History of Photography, established in 1985, cover the entire history of Italian and world photography, from the 19th century to the present. The collections hold more than 2,750,000 bw and color negatives on various media, from plates to photocolors, and more than 900,000 vintage print run positives, vintage prints, including salted paper, albumen, and bromide prints, calotype negatives, and daguerreotypes. The Museum also maintains a rich collection of cameras, advertisements, paper documents, and frames. Attached to the Museum, the Library specializing in the History of Photography holds more than 20,000 volumes dedicated to the field.
Multimedia project born from the collaboration between the Province of Rome-Project ABC and Cinecittà Luce to enhance and promote the history and territory of the province, all its municipalities, by making available online all audiovisual and photographic materials preserved in the Luce Historical Archives and concerning the province of Rome.
The project was born thanks to the initiative of the Centro documentazione archivio Flamigni (Flamigni Archive Documentation Center), which gave life to the Network with the conference “Archivi in rete per non dimenticare: terrorismo, stragi, violenza politica, movimenti e criminalità organizzata” (Rome, December 19, 2006) and was developed with the support, including financial support, of the State Archives of Viterbo. The network is joined by numerous private archives, documentation centers and associations, which have worked to preserve and protect the historical memory of our country regarding issues related to terrorism, political violence and organized crime. Documentation related to these issues, preserved in State Archives and other institutions scattered throughout the country, is also accessible through the portal.
Primary access point for consultation and research of non-state, public and private archival holdings preserved outside the State Archives. Described are: the archival complexes with their articulations; the subjects (entities, individuals and families) that have produced the records in the course of their activities; and the subjects that preserve the archives. There are also general fact sheets that provide historical, institutional and archival information useful for understanding the context.
Offers the possibility to browse through a selection of materials from Rai’s archives. More than 1,500 video and audio documents chosen in the logic of reconstructing the most significant passages of Rai television and radio production.