A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY AND MEMORY

The Historiale di Cassino is the first example in Italy of a new way of telling history based on the use of different forms of expression. The result of contamination between the languages of cinema, museography, visual arts and new models of edutainment, it uses techniques and technologies for the dissemination of cultural content.

In thirteen rooms, it is a permanent multimedia exhibition that recounts the events, the geo-strategic context and the memories of the local population of the Battle of Montecassino and the events that affected the Martyrology area during the Second World War. An important place dedicated to the historical memory of one of the bloodiest and most emblematic battles of the conflict, which becomes a journey into the European consciousness and the capacity for rebirth of a population that lost everything, even its own identity, but had the strength to rise from the ruins and become an example for the entire international community.

The Historiale rethinks the traditional concept of the war museum, which is mainly based on material elements and of which there are excellent examples all over the world, and focuses on more purely immaterial dimensions. It is a space of memory that, in addition to the exhibition of relics, of which the Cassino area is already rich, places man, soldier or civilian, and his experience at the centre.

The challenge was to use codes in history that are more resistant to change.