Category: Initiatives

Occupied Italy  is an open access digital journal dedicated to the study of the history of the Second World War in Italy and its immediate consequences, spanning between the Allied landing in July 1943 and the referendum in June 1946 . The journal was founded in December 2020 with the aim of emphasizing the relevance…

On June 21, 1943, the allied aviation dropped on Battipaglia its first terrible load of bombs, so the long martyrdom of the city began. “Here at Battipaglia we had an Italian Guernica, a town transformed in a matter of seconds to an heap of rubbles.”Norman Lewis, Naples ’43 Since 2017,…

One of the creations of the Avalanche project is a theatrical and musical show created specifically for the first edition of the series of events. It is an unpublished story written to remember what happened in the summer of 1943 in Salerno and the Sele plain, a story that tells…

The project of the digital archive around the Battipaglia’s history is the starting initiative of  Mu.Bat project thanks to the particular skills of our initial project partners as  regesta.exe, an italian company specialized in cultural heritage asset management involved by the local touristic company Albergo Riviera Spineta . The service has hosted  by “The Archives Cloud” (www.thearchivescloud.com), based on xDams…

The project aimed initially collect artworks of local artists involved through a contest. The mailn goal was to create an “Avalanche 2017” collection thanks their donation by the artists, in order to build a first valuable asset of the Battipaglia Museum and set up a virtuous cycle that would further…

The project was born within the wider initiative “Avalanche 2017 celebrations” but somehow lives a parallel life and beyond this first year of experimentation it is already projected towards a repeat in the coming years. The project intends on the one hand to help children in deepening the story through…