Many visual and audio-visual aids are preserved at the Museum. In the schools of the past, lacking in means, images were of great help to teachers in carrying out their lessons. Wall paintings, magic lantern slides, filmstrips, super8 films, and videocassettes have been of valid help in Italian schools.
The Museum preserves a vast collection of wall paintings relating to many disciplines, about 800 fixed image filmstrips and some super8 films not much used in schools because they were very expensive. The filmstrips refer to all school subjects and to fairy tales, they were often accompanied by explanation booklets with which publishing houses accompanied the filmstrips. These proved to be a help for the teacher who during the projection could read them or at least have a suggestion for the explanation of the various frames that followed one another.
Also, the radio, introduced in schools during the fascist era, and then television have been important means of education. For music teaching, gramophones and record players were used, when they could be purchased, which can be seen in the Museum.