Archivio di Stato di Milano

Exhibitions

Below is a list of the main archival material exhibitions held by the State Archive of Milan over the years.

For exhibitions for which a printed catalogue was published, a link has been added to the page Publications, research and projects. For all other exhibitions, virtual versions of the exhibitions themselves are currently under development with the possibility of downloading the catalogue in PDF format. Images galleries are also available for some of these.

2021

• Uprisings and wars. The Milanese archives during the Napoleonic era. 10/10/2021 - 30/04/2022. Curated by Maria Pia Bortolotti, Marco Lanzini, Carmela Santoro. Go to the online exhibition

2020

• Black on white. Archive documents that tell the story of Leonardo. 16/01 - 28/03 2020. Curated by Giovanni Battista Sannazzaro and Michela Palazzo.Go to the online exhibition   

2018

 

• MEMORY IS FUTURE. Heritage on the move. Generating public value: protection paths. 13/12/2018 - 02/02/2019. Curated by the Lombardy Archivistic and Bibliographical Office, with the support of the Directorate-General for Archives of the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities and in collaboration with the State Archive of Milan. Go to the online exhibition
• “...thousands of miles away from an affectionate caress.” Nostalgia for Italy among post-war emigrants: Cronache d’Italia by Annibale Del Mare. 10/11-28/11 2018. Curated by Enrico Sansoni
• “A deserted castle”. The losses suffered by the State Archive of Milan during the Second World War. 11/09-20/09/2018. Curated by Marco Lanzini
• The power of imagination. Schools, universities and students in the years of protest in Milan. 07/10-31/10 2018. Curated by Antonella Cesarini, Eleonora Giaquinto, Enrico Sansoni
• Ninety years since the Italian polar expedition of the N4 “Italia” airship. 23/05-30/06 2018. Curated by Francesca Zara.
• The last headquarters of “Il Popolo d’Italia”: Palazzo dell’Informazione. 05/05-23/05 2018. Curated by Roberta Cotticelli and Fabio Muggia.
• “… the study of the liberal arts is not in any way unbecoming of the female sex”, Milan 1727. 13/04-11/05. Curated by Roberta Cotticelli and Fabio Muggia. Introduction to the exhibition (PDF, 84 KB) - go to the online exhibition
• “said weapons were in the car by coincidence”. Mussolini tried for duelling by the Magistrate’s Court (1915). 07/04-03/05. Curated by Carmela Santoro.
• Caporetto: disaster and recapture. 03/03-31/03/2018. Curated by Giovanni Liva.
• Gaetano Bresci. The assassination of King Umberto I. 11/02-01/03. Curated by Mariagrazia Carlone.
• Rosa Genoni 1867-1954. 20th CENTURY FEMALE PIONEER in the field of fashion, teaching, peace, emancipation. 13/01-17/03.

2017

• The prince and the sovereign - The places, the sentiments, the court. 03/11-30/12/2017. Curated by Cristina Cenedella and Mario Signori.
• Toscanini “maestro of music” and his time. 30/09-28/10 2017.  Curated by Mariagrazia Carlone and Licia Sirch.
• Literary censorship and homosexuality in post-war Italy. 60 years on from the prosecution of “Ragazzi di vita” by Pasolini. 17/06-31/07/2017. Curated by Andrea De Marinis.
• La Marca. History and stories of men and towns of the Marche in the documents of the State Archive of Milan. 10/06-31/07/2017. Curated by Emilio Fortunato. Go to theVideo (link to YouTube page)
• Focus on Music. 03-10/6/2017, as part of Milano Photo Week. Curated by Mariagrazia Carlone.
• Out of the silence…deaf-mute people at acting recital. 06-30/05/2017. Curated by Mariapia Bortolotti and Antonella Cassetti.
• Aspects of the Lombardy landscape in the maps of the State Archive of Milan. 14/03-31/04/2017. Curated by Giovanni Liva. Go to the online exhibition
• An original trick. From a Juvenile Court judgment of 1936. 11-31/03/2017.
• The expedition of John Cabot, “populare venetiano de gentile ingenio” (“popular Venetian of refined brilliance”). 04/02-04/03 2017. Curated by Alba Osimo.
• The Vettabbia and its mills, 1581, Milan. 5/01-13/03/2017. Curated by Vincenza Petrilli.

2016

• The terrorist attack in Piazza Fontana on 12 December 1969 in the judgments of the Court of Assize of Milan of 30 June 2001 and the Court of Assize of Appeal of Milan of 12 March 2004. 14/12-31/12/2016. Curated by Giovanni Liva.
• Women towards the vote of 1946 in the documents of the Prefecture of Milan. 8/11/2016-23/12/2016. Curated by Carmela Santoro, Vincenza Petrilli, Mariagrazia Carlone. Go to the online exhibition
• The Milan terrorist attacks of 25 April 1969, the start of the “strategy of tension”, in the judgment of the Court of Assize of Milan of 28 May 1971. 9-31/10. Curated by Giovanni Liva.
• The founding of the Government Archive of Milan. 3-30/9. Curated by Marco Lanzini.
• Three imperial diplomas of Otto III. The form of the imperial diploma at the turn of the first Millennium. 1/7 - 12/8. Curated by Alessandro Manduzio.
• Galanterie. Music from the Banfi archive. 4/6 - 12/8. Curated by Mariagrazia Carlone.
• The ketubot of the State Archive of Milan. 1/5-31/5. Exhibition curated by Mariagrazia Carlone, Vincenza Petrilli, Giovanna Lamura. Scientific consultancy by Stefania Roncolato.
• The Jews in Milan. The racial laws in the documents conserved in the State Archive of Milan (1938-1945). 14/3 - 30/4. Curated by Alba Osimo.
• “... he came to me as an evacuee.” International Holocaust Remembrance Day. 27/1 - 15/2 2016. Curated by Giovanni Liva.

2015

• Landriano and its territory. History, society and agricultural production. 22/10-27/11/2015. Virtual exhibition: http://www.archiviodistatomilano.cultura.gov.it/Landriano/index.php
• A document a story. From the abbess’s lunch to the abolition of pasta: how eating habits have changed over the centuries (12th-20th). 23/6-31/10/2015. Virtual exhibition: http://movio.cultura.gov.it/asmi/undocumentounastoria/it/16/crediti
• I Lionardo da Vinci. 19/5-30/10/2015. The only known signature of Leonardo at the bottom of a contract for The Virgin of the Rocks (1483). Exhibition held under the patronage of the President of Italy. Multilingual virtual exhibition (Italian, English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese). Virtual exhibition:  http://www.archiviodistatomilano.cultura.gov.it/iolionardodavinci/it/index.php
• Alpen unter Strom / The energy of the Alps. 14/4-13/5/2015. Electricity production in the last century. For more information http://www.argealp.org/; http://www.alpen-unter-strom.eu/.

2014

• 1915-1918. Voices of war voices of peace. 5/10/2014-19/12/2014. Opening Sunday 5/10. Invitation (PDF, 63 KB).
   
• The hand, the mistakes, the triumph. From 13/2/2014, at the Music Conservatory of Milan. Exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi in collaboration with the Music Conservatory of Milan and Tomo Quarto-Centro studi di Musica Sacra. Invitation (jpg, 267 KB); poster (jpg, 519 KB; presentation (PDF, 1561 KB).

2013

• Yes, Paper! 26/11/2013-28/02/2014. Curated by Alba Osimo and Carlo Cairati, Giovanni Luca Dilda, Marco Lanzini, Marta Luigina Mangini, with contributions from Manuela Ferroni, Yuri Gallo, Andrea Bernasconi, Tiziana Danelli, Giulia Maffina, Claudia Musto, Marina Sambusiti, Francesco Lisanti, Roberta Ramella, Luciano Sassi, Susanna Braghieri, Alice Valsecchi. Printed catalogue
• “D'appendizi pago”. Food and agricultural landscape through the surveys of the Theresian cadastre.
  03/10/2013-09/11/2013. Curated by Maria Pia Bortolotti, Anna Lucia Brunetti, Giovanni Liva, Vincenza Petrilli, Francesca Zara. Go to the virtual exhibition

2012

• QuanteStorie! exhibition. 18/04/2012-18/05/2012. Exhibition of educational workshops held at the State Archive of Milan during academic year 2011-2012. Curated by Marta Luigina Mangini and Alba Osimo with the collaboration of Carla Biganzoli, Alessandra Celati, Gianluigi Colombo, Davide Dionisi, Giuliana Fantoni, Riccardo Genovesi, Giacomo Giudici, Giulia Maffina, Roberta Ramella, Marina Sambusiti, Nicolò Titolo, Alice Valsecchi. Flyer (PDF, 206 KB)
   
• Notary protocols in 13th century Milan. 22/03/2012-10/04/2012. Curated by Marta Luigina Mangini and Alba Osimo. Flyer (PDF, 705 KB)
   
• Archifiction. A case for Inspector Nardone: Rina Fort, “the monster of via San Gregorio”. 16/12/2012-31/01/2013. Curated by Mariagrazia Carlone, Carmela Santoro and Francesca Zara.

2011

• “Itali siam tutti, un popol solo.” Aspects of the Unification process in the records of the State Archive of Milan. 26/05/2011-30/10/2011. Curated by Anna Lucia Brunetti, Giovanna Calati, Mariagrazia Carlone, Davide Dozio, Emilio Fortunato, Giovanni Liva, Marco Lanzini, Alessandro Manduzio, Vincenza Petrilli, Carmela Santoro, Mario Signori, Francesca Zara with the collaboration of Elisabetta Borroni, Enrico Sansoni, Luciano Sassi. Go to the virtual exhibition
   
• Sisters of Italy. 28/03/2011-28/04/2011. Curated by Maria Pia Bortolotti. Presentation (PDF, 110 KB)

2010

• Domenica di carta. 3 October 2010. Exhibition held as part of the Domenica di carta. Libraries and Archives tell their stories project. Curated by Giovanni Liva and Mariagrazia Carlone. Catalogue (PDF, 2219 KB)

2009

• “...it is love, true and powerful...” 14/02/2009-21/02/2009. To mark Valentine’s Day, the celebration of love, the exhibition of a recently acquired love letter from the correspondence of the Respighi archive. Curated by Anna Lucia Brunetti and Mariagrazia Carlone.
   
• International Women’s Day. 8 to 31 March 2009. Archival material exhibition curated by Anna Lucia Brunetti and Mariagrazia Carlone. Catalogue (PDF, 309 KB)
   
• Scores and photographs from the Respighi archive. From 21 June to 30 September 2009. Archival material exhibition curated by Mariagrazia Carlone. Flyer (JPG, 865 KB); Catalogue (PDF, 2447 KB)
   
• And then came the time for compassion. Sentiment and poetry in last wills and testaments. 5/11/2009-26/02/2010. Curated by Alba Osimo, in memory of Franca Maria Baroni. Printed catalogue

2008

• Aspects and accounts of the First World War in the records of the State Archive of Milan. 7/9/2008 at the Lombardy Army Military Command (Palazzo Cusani, 15 Via Brera Milan). Curated by Fiammetta Auciello, Michele Dean and Giovanni Liva, in collaboration with the Milan Military District and the Lombardy Army Military Command. Go to the virtual exhibition
   
• Archive Notes. 21/06/2008-31/07/2008. Archival material exhibition curated by Mariagrazia Carlone. Flyer (JPG, 731 KB). Go to the virtual exhibition

2007

• Art in Lombardy and Milan at the time of the Sforzas: prefiguration of a modern state and capital. 12/05/2007-30/06/2007. Exhibition held as part of the 9th culture week.
   
• Taverna Archive. These Taverni accounts... Story of a family, a river and a castle. 8/11/2007-28/02/2008. Curated by Alba Osimo.  Printed catalogue

2006

• Authenticity, reliability, confidentiality of documents over the centuries. 11/12/2006-31/01/2007.
   
• Fifth centenary of the death of Filippo da Lavagna (1505 - 2005). 13/10/2006-15/11/2006. Exhibition held in collaboration with the Municipality of Comazzo.
   
• Leopoldo Pollack (1751 - 1806). 15/09/2006-7/10/2006. Archival material exhibition promoted by the State Archive of Milan in collaboration with the historic Lombard society to mark the bicentenary of the famous architect’s death.

2005

• Nikolai Ivanovic, your letter... Letters from Catherine the Great to N.I. Saltykov (1773 - 1793). 3/11/2005-18/02/2006. Curated by Alba Osimo, in collaboration with the University of Saratov.  Printed catalogue.
   
• The dawning of Milan’s printworks. 22/09/2005-22/10/2005. Exhibition held to mark European Heritage Days, with the collaboration of Prof. Arnaldo Ganda.

2002

• The colours of writing. 6/11/2002-31/01/2003. Curated by Alba Osimo and Maria Franca Baroni. Printed catalogue. 

2001

• Cartola de accepto mundio. 26/02/2001-4/03/2001. The oldest parchment preserved in the Italian State Archives (12 May 721, Piacenza), displayed to the public during the 3rd culture week. Presentation and transcription (PDF, 97 KB)
   
• The dawning of a new century. Milan and its Università Popolare at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. 22/11/2001-24/01/2002. Exhibition organised with Università Popolare of Milan. Curated by Fiammetta Auciello and Michele Dean. Printed catalogue. 

2000

• The Galletti archive, manuscripts and autographs in the State Archive of Milan. 19/05/2000-23/09/2000. Curated by Alba Osimo. Printed catalogue. 

1999

• The territory of the State of Milan in the early Spanish period: the 1500s. Curated by Maria Pia Bortolotti, Bernadette Cereghini, Giovanni Liva, Marina Valori. Printed catalogue. 

1997

• What’s new? Nothing: war. Milanese men and women facing up to war 1885 - 1945. 8/3/1997-27/4/1997.  Exhibition organised by the State Archive of Milan with the participation of the State Central Archive, the State Archive of Udine, the Historic Archive of Credito Italiano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Printed catalogue.

1994

• Milan and Europe from the 13th to the 19th century. Printed catalogue. 

1987

• Moments of the Napoleonic era in the records of the State Archive of Milan. Printed catalogue.

1985

• Aspects of Lombard society under Spanish rule. Printed catalogue. 

1984

• The interested image. Land and maps in Lombardy between the 16th and 19th centuries. Curated by Giovanni Liva, Maurizio Savoja, Mario Signori. Printed catalogue.

1983

• Ludovico il Moro. His city and his court (1480 - 1499). Printed catalogue. 

1982

• Maria Theresa and Austrian Lombardy (1740 - 1780).  Printed catalogue.

1981

• Excerpts from the Sforza archive. Printed catalogue. 

1959

• Archival material exhibition on “Cinquantanove” and its eve. Printed catalogue. 

1957

• Aspects of Catholic reform and the Council of Trent in Milan. Printed catalogue.

 

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