The Scuola di Alti Studi IMT of Lucca in collaboration and with the co-financing of the Paper Museum of Pescia announced in October 2020 a position, with a duration of 12 months, of collaborator / research collaborator for the study and cataloging of a selection of watermarks from our Museum. Within the deadline, 88 candidates sent in their applications. Last December and January 2021, the commission examined the candidates and identified the winner of the selection.
Dr. Marta Maria Caudullo, with experience in important national museums and former researcher at the Roberto Longhi Foundation for Art History Studies in Florence, will therefore take up service at the Museum next February and will thus be able to deepen the history of our collections and the study of the documentation conserved in the Magnani Historical Archive of the Paper Museum.
“The commitment continues – says the President Paolo Carrara – for the enhancement of our heritage also and above all in such a difficult and uncertain moment. The collaboration with the Scuola di Alti Studi IMT of Lucca, which I thank, is a source of great satisfaction for us and is a sign of the recognized value of the activities carried out by the Museum. A team effort with local stakeholders that we intend to intensify more and more and with whom we will share the results of this first systematic survey of the extraordinary heritage we conserve. I am convinced that we will achieve surprising results”. “I want to thank – adds the Director Massimiliano Bini – prof. Emanuele Pellegrini of IMT for all the support he has given and will continue to give to the project and Prof. Elisa Fulco who was part of the examining commission.
We now have twelve intense months of study, insights and wide-ranging research on the Museum's collections ahead of us. A work on watermarks and archival documents of the Museum which will make it possible to mend stories, to re-tie relationships, to clarify orders. In the investigation, we will cover a vast period of time, over three centuries of history which have allowed Magnani di Pescia's watermarked paper to be known all over the world”.
