
The project focuses on the archives of architects and engineers of the XX Century, describing their consistency and giving the possibility - for some of them - to have web access to the analytic inventories, supported by high quality reproductions of the drawings and graphs.

With the final end of the asylums for mental disease, the preservation of the archives of those institutes became an urgency.
This project succeeded in making inventories and improving the value of the archives of former Psychiatric Hospitals, especially for sanitary fonds, using homogeneous approach for descriptions through the whole Italian territory.

This thematic path has been created by the Direzione generale per gli archivi (General Directorate for Archives) and is intended to help users locate music archives of the Twentieth century, and, to a limited extent, of the Nineteenth century. In the near future, we hope to broaden the chronological range of web searchable fonds and finding aids to earlier centuries.








