Not all collections are definitive in our museum. Some are built with our visitors and allow us to write a history of education and school capable of welcoming the memories of objects, people and buildings that tell different educational pages from the institutional ones.
Visitors’ memories, stories, recollections mix with what guides, volunteers, professors, curators tell in a Public History perspective that wants to “build together.”
A piece of music can awaken memories, much like a nursery rhyme read in a book or a comic opened on a table… and memory returns to confront the present.
A significant part of these processes comes from extracurricular education, which takes place in institutions or settings outside of school, such as parishes, gyms, and associations, all of which contribute to human development throughout life.
The Museum then preserves catechisms, missals, holy cards to remember first communion, manuals for catechists, but also gymnastic equipment and sports uniforms from the 1920s to the 1970s and documents and materials relating to the Opera Nazionale Balilla (1925-1945) together with some testimonies on scouting.