In addition to the museum's concentration on its core
concepts, including an active program for children and elementary school
teachers, these new efforts explore the principal interests of the museum:
(1) the 19th century in Italy and Milan, (2) traditional craftsmanship, (3)
historic house museums of collectors, and (4) the historic Montenapoleone
district in which the museum is located. Each of these areas has its own
section, available on the righthand side of the new home page (once you have
chosen Italian or English).
The "19th Century" button will take you to rich pages of
links, some of which are for photograph collections with web sites and images
on-line. Each of the web sites has been chosen by us as pertinent and helpful,
to save scholars from having to wade through mountains of
material.
The "Montenapoleone" section investigates this
historic area through its structures, urban development, history and famous
personages.
The museological section focuses on historic house museums
of collectors, a category to which our museum belongs.
Finally, the craftsmen section is a database, with
free access to scholars after sign-up, of traditional artisans working in
Lombardy from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
The database provides information--otherwise unattainable or attainable with
great difficulty--gleaned from private archives, including that of the Bagatti
Valsecchi family, in this region of Italy. Thus, this database
provides an invaluable Italian parallel to the similar sources for American and
British artisans available through the Getty.
Thank you for this opportunity to send you information
about our new web site, and we hope that the sources are useful to
you.
Best regards,
Star Meyer
P.S., Please forgive cross-postings. If
you have suggestions for web sites on the 19th century, especially those that
deal with Italy and Milan, would you be so kind as to forward them to me?
Web sites on American and British topics in the 19th century are not difficult
to find, and the few general and vast sources we have included probably will
suffice. Finding material on the 19th century in Italy, particularly Milan, is
difficult, so we hope this new service will be helpful to you, whether of direct
interest, or for comparison's sake.