by InTrieste
The Friuli Venezia Giulia regional government will invest a total of €225,000 to support nine school museum projects aimed at preserving and showcasing the historical, scientific and cultural collections housed in schools across the region.
The announcement was made on Wednesday at the ITS Volta, where regional education councillor Alessia Rosolenpresented the winners of the regional call for proposals, Musei scolastici – Per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale esistente all’interno delle scuole.
The initiative was initially launched with a budget of €100,000, but the regional government said it plans to allocate an additional €125,000 through its upcoming budget adjustment to fully finance all nine selected projects.
According to Rosolen, the proposals demonstrate the richness of the region’s educational heritage, ranging from historical archives to scientific instruments and industrial collections that reflect the development of local communities and industries.
“The school museums are intended not only to open these collections to the public but also to strengthen the connection between students, their communities and the region’s history,” Rosolen said. She added that the projects highlight the educational paths of notable figures whose work contributed to the development of Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The selected museums span a wide range of disciplines. They include the Corrado Bonfanti Museum of Computing and Calculating Machines at ITS Volta in Trieste; the MuMA – Museo del Fare Antonio Mattioni at ISIS Paolino d’Aquileia in Cividale del Friuli; the Museum of Technical, Economic and Scientific Education at Istituto Tecnico Zanon; the Identity Museum at ISIS D’Aronco; the Physics Cabinet and Historical Student Archive at Liceo Marinelli; the Historical Museum of ISIS Da Vinci-Carli-De Sandrinelli; the Museums of Electricity, Electronics and Computing at ISIS Malignani; the Museum of Metrology and Industrial Mechanics at ISIS Zanussi; and the Physics and Computing Museums at Liceo Oberdan.
Regional officials also said they are considering expanding eligibility for the program next year to include comprehensive schools, in collaboration with the Regional School Office.
During the event, Lydia Alessio-Vernì, director general of the Regional Agency for Cultural Heritage (ERPAC), said the initiative reflects the region’s broader effort to promote cultural heritage by encouraging a deeper understanding of local identity and history.
Beyond preserving collections, the program seeks to involve students directly in research, exhibition design and public presentation of the materials through school-to-work training programs, making the museums both educational resources and community spaces.
