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This Month in GLAM – Volume XII, Issue XI, November 2022

Italy report

Video and photo to share the beauty of Italy's heritage

Opening archives to Wikimedia projects: video in collaboration with cultural institutions

This month's new about the collaboration with TCI is the creation of a video shot inside the TCI Historical Archives, able to reach an even wider audience. Wikimedia Italia and Touring Club Italiano share in fact the desire to tell, document and share the beauty of Italy's heritage. Hence the three-year agreement to make digital reproductions of some nuclei of the TCI Historical Archives' collections accessible.

Click here to watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnzzBLhe04

Two other important videos are scheduled to be released in the coming months: the first shot at the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum), with whom there is an ongoing - in collaboration also with Creative Commons Italy - and the University of Padua, with whom Wikimedia Italy has been collaborating for several years with great results for the Wikimedia projects.

Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

The beautiful Castle of Formigine hosted the award ceremony for the ten finalist photos of the Italian edition of Wiki Loves Monuments, which this year had as its main theme precisely that of Castles and Fortifications. Thanks to the collaboration with Istituto Italiano dei Castelli (February news), for the first time thousands of fortifications that are protagonists of Italian history and landscape were photographed in order to enrich the world's most famous online encyclopedia.

Alongside the ranking of photos of castles and fortifications, prizes were also awarded for the best shots in the general section, where photographers could upload photos of more than 22 thousand monuments from all over Italy.

The winner of the castles and fortifications section is Castel del Monte, with a b/w shot that enhances the fortress in a play of light and shadow. For the first time this year, thanks to the collaboration with Istituto Italiano dei Castelli, this important castle, situated in Apulia, was included in the list of photographable monuments for the contest.

Winning the gold medal in the general section, however, is the Biblioteca Civica Centrale di Torino (Central Public Library), a public library established in 1869, that belongs to the Biblioteche Civiche Torinesi library system. Among its collections are important manuscripts produced by Vincenzo Gioberti.

Just in 2022, Piedmont volunteers focused their efforts on documenting Turin's libraries, drawing photographers' attention to busy public buildings; thanks to the work of volunteers in fact in May 2022, the City of Turin has authorized a long list of monuments, libraries and museums that it holds in its custody. These include the Automobile Museum, the Teatro Regio and the Mole Antonelliana, which have been featured in beautiful shots from Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 and best documented on Wikimedia projects.

In particular 21 libraries in the city of Turin were made photographable in 2022: Biblioteca civica centrale; Biblioteca civica Italo Calvino; Biblioteca civica musicale Andrea della Corte presso la Villa Tesoriera; Biblioteca civica Passerin d'Entrèves; Biblioteca civica Bianca Guidetti Serra; Biblioteca Rita Atria; Biblioteca civica Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Biblioteca civica Cascina Marchesa; Biblioteca civica Francesco Cognasso; Biblioteca civica Alberto Geisser; Biblioteca civica Natalia Ginzburg; Biblioteca civica Primo Levi di Torino; Biblioteca civica Don Lorenzo Milani di Torino; Biblioteca civica Cesare Pavese; Biblioteca civica Villa Amoretti; Mausoleo della Bela Rosin; Biblioteca del Polo del '900 in Palazzo San Daniele; Biblioteca dell'Istoreto e biblioteca dell'Archivio cinematografico della Resistenza in Palazzo San Celso; Biblioteca di Economia e Management dell'Università di Torino; Biblioteca Giuseppe Peano del Dipartimento di matematica dell'Università di Torino in Palazzo Campana; Biblioteca di storia e cultura del Piemonte Giuseppe Grosso presso Palazzo Cisterna.