Recipient Flaminia Bartolini
Date 01 April, 2025
Amount £8000.00
Summary This publication analyses how the illusion of Italian colonial power in Northen Africa was fuelled in the Motherland through museum collections and archaeological findings. By examining the colonial heritage-making process of both the liberal and fascist periods, this book will show differences and similarities in the use of soft power to advance colonial ideological ends. By examining unpublished archival materials on colonial exhibitions that preceded the formation of the Colonial Museum in Rome, the museum itself, and what happened to its collections in the post-war period, this research has investigated the historical and political conditions under which the colonial project was ‘sold’ to the country. Thus this project also informs on how to deal with colonial legacies, their contemporary meanings, and how to use them in a reparatory effort.