One hundred years have passed since the end of the First World War and an exhibition traces its history.
War illustrated, war lived. There Big War a Bologna between history and memory is an exhibition set up at the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento in Bologna from 20 October 2018 al 27 January 2019 and presents the results of the project "The Great War in Bologna between History and Memory": implementation of the portal www.storiaememoriadibologna.it and the creation of a collective, citizen and national memory on the events linked to the First World War are the main objectives of the review.
The exhibition is curated by Myrtis Gavelli e Roberto Martorelli who wanted to create an opportunity for awareness and promotion of the digitization work of documentary and memoir sources of various kinds carried out between 2015 and 2018, through the public display of some of the most relevant documents belonging to a heritage that is still little known and in some cases completely new.
The highly didactic and informative value of the project which is aimed not only at a young audience is demonstrated by the presence in the exhibition of a totem which allows you to explore the virtual 3D reconstruction of the grandiose Lapidarium of the Basilica of Santo Stefano, as it appeared in the year of inauguration (1925): with the names of the 2.536 fallen of the city of Bologna engraved on the 64 tombstones placed inside the cloister.
The site dedicates a specific scenario to the Great War in which the names of the 10.000 fallen in the Bologna area gradually become faces, images and stories that can be consulted online. The digital project was also promoted thanks to a contribution disbursed by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers as part of a financing plan for the creation, throughout the country, of cultural initiatives connected to the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, to the in order to promote knowledge of the events and preserve their memory among the new generations.
The exhibition is also part of 'EnERgie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna a heritage of cultures and humanity', an initiative of the Emilia-Romagna Region which celebrates the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
