Topografia della Memoria: Museo Diffuso dell’Area di Confine

Topografia della Memoria: Museo Diffuso dell’Area di Confine (Topography of Memory: Widespread Museum of the Borderland) is a series of open-air, cross-border installations and guided tours in the neighbouring towns of Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia). The project covers a historical period from the end of the First World War (1918) to end of the Second World War and the signing of the Paris Peace Treaties (1947), and employs physical displays and guided tours to present oral histories drawn from residents of both towns during this time: to combine a physical historic tour of both towns with an understanding of individual and personal perspectives and responses to war, resistance, fear, and peace in a cross-border context.

The project is administered by the local Quarantasettezeroquattro Cultural Association in collaboration with the Slovenian Museum of Recent History, and describes itself as “the first example, in Italy, of an open-air cross-border museum.” It is designed, according to Quarantasettezeroquattro, “to favor the recovery of local memory.”