The Museum of Archaeology, together with other Museums of the University Museum System of Pavia, participates in the Digital Library PAVIA project of the Cultural Heritage Area of the University of Pavia.

Digital Library PAVIA is an application that allows to collect, preserve, enhance and make available in digital format archival material, books and museums of the University of Pavia and other institutions in the area.
Given the historical, cultural and artistic importance of the materials collected and preserved, the service is intended to support study and research not only for teachers, researchers and students of the University of Pavia, but also for the entire community.
During the presentation, the main features of the service will be illustrated, as well as the different types of searches that can be carried out, the methods for viewing, enlarging and downloading images, and, thanks to OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, the possibility of analysing archived texts.
The materials collected will be presented, which currently exceed 2,700 objects of various kinds (archival assets, drawings, paintings, photographs, museum objects, books, music books, etc.), totalling over 500,000 images.
Some examples of what can be found and freely consulted:

– The Numismatic Fund with Roman Republican and Celtic coins kept at the Museum of Archaeology;
– Objects from Alessandro Volta’s Physics Cabinet or from the Physics Cabinet of the 19th century; or, again, the Instrumentalarium (surgery and obstetrics) of Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla, preserved – like the previous ones – at the Museum for the History of the University;
– The volumes published by the Centre for the History of the University;
– The “Plinio Fraccaro” Rari di Storia Locale (Rare Books of Local History) collection kept at the Humanities Library;
– The photographic collection of the Institute of General Pathology kept at the Camillo Golgi Museum;
– The opera librettos of the Giuseppina Ghisi fund kept at the Library of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage (Cremona);
– Drawings, paintings and photo library of the Alfonso Gatto Fund or the photographs, drawings and paintings of the Emilio De Marchi Fund, as well as the Acchiappati Collection (Foscolian Collections): objects conserved – all – at the Manuscripts Centre.
Manuscripts;
– The Registers with the minutes of the Board of Directors (from 1924 to 1970) kept in the Historical Archive.
The collection is in continuous evolution and projects in development will be presented during the meeting.
Programme of the day
10.00
Institutional greetings
Mauro Freccero (Vice-Chancellor for Research)
Cesare Zizza (Rector’s Delegate for Libraries)
Lorenzo Duico (Head of Cultural Heritage Area)
10.30
Presentation of the project and description of the service by:
Paolo Nassi (Digital Library Manager)
Roberto Canevari
11.00
Presentation of the materials and opportunities offered by the service by: Gianfranca Lavezzi (President of the Manuscript Centre)
Gianfranca Lavezzi (President of the Manuscript Centre)
Dario Mantovani (President of the Centre for the History of the University of Pavia)
Paolo Mazzarello (President of the Museum System)
Pietro Zappala (Member of the Library Commission of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage – CR)
From 13 January 2021, culture has a new freely accessible tool that the University of Pavia invites everyone to consult.

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