Percorsi nella Storia di Roviano/Routes into the History of Roviano Percorsi nella Storia di Roviano May 2017 | Page 9

INTRODUCTION
This e-book is the tangible product of a joint project of the
Junior High School and the Museum of Farm Life of Roviano.
The main aim of the project has been to build a bridge between
the local historical and anthropological heritage and the young
generations.
In the first place, homage has been paid to the local primary
teacher Artemio Tacchia, who with his pupils, first collected
and catalogued the objects in the museum over many years, and
paved the way to the first exhibition open to the public in 1980.
Almost forty years later, the stakeholders of this project have
intended to add a new dimension to the work undertaken
previously.
First, the project was not intended as a nostalgic celebration of
the museum and the history it represents: it aimed at making
teenagers aware of their roots, while also sowing the seeds of
social and personal awareness, by asking what meaning, if any,
such a museum could have for young people and society at
large, given that technology has replaced much manual labour
and reduced or eliminated the toil it entailed.
This e-book is composed of four sections: the first collects
some pupils’ reflections about the objects, the know-how and
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