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Bunker
The Alpine Entrenchment. South Tyrol 1939-1989
14th December 2008 – 11th January
     
Guadalajara

 The exhibition is dedicated to the alpine entrenchment, the Italian fortress system projected and partially built between 1930 and 1942 in South Tyrol in defence of the Northern borders, restored after the end of the Second World War. On display are bunkers and constructions conceived against the German army during the Cold War as defensive barrages against the troops of the Pact of Warsaw.



 At the end of the 90’s and of the Cold War the strategic-military reason that brought to the setting up of the alpine entrenchment failed and these constructions carefully inserted in the surrounding landscape lost their function. The State gave up the whole fortress system to the Province of Bolzano which had to manage 350 constructions among bunkers and defensive barrages. The provincial Heritage Administration office, after a careful evaluation decided to appoint twenty of them to cultural, educational and tourist activities.


The show "Bunker" organized by the Service Patrimony of the Province of Bolzano (curators: Christina Niederkofler and Andrew Pozza) was hosted at the Museum of the War in Rovereto between December 13th 2008 and January 11th 2008; on display photographic panels, vintage cartography and materials (uniforms, endowments, weapons) employed in these works from the end of the years 30’s up to the 80’s.
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Let’s go to Spain for the fascist ideal!
Legionaries from Trentino in the Spanish Civil War 1936-39
28. June – 16. November 2008
  Spirit of adventure and discovery, reckless research for a lease on life, support to the anti-Bolshevik Crusade… The history of hundred legionaries from Trentino that took part in the most fascist war of the Dictatorship. Seventy years ago Spain knew a very cruel three years long Civil war (1936 – 1939) which brought to a dictatorship ended in 1975. The exhibition displayed in the War Museum shows this European tragedy that involved men and women, states, organizations; during this war were experimented totalitarian ideologies and expansive strategies. It was a very cruel and violent conflict during which the countries that would face each other in the Second World War planned alliances and projects, tested weapons and technologies before the final battle.


 Guadalajara

Nave per la Spagna

Spagna 1938

  
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Galizia, Pasubio, Isonzo
Popular art and “military department pride” in the Austro-Hungarian cup badges. 1914 – 1918
30 March 2007 – 31 March 2008



Symbols, portraits and landscape in miniature in the widest exhibitions of military cup badges. A journey through art and propaganda.
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Military honours
Decorations and awards in the Great War
21 May - 23 October 2005
  On show from the Rovereto War Museum’s own collection is a select display of military decorations from all the nations involved in the Great War. The exhibition illustrates the logic and significance of the awards, their function and efficacy.

Curator Alberto Lembo
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Soldier photographers
Photographs of the Great War in “Le Miroir”
13 February - 6 November 2005
  During the Great War the French illustrated magazine “Le Miroir” launched a competition with money prizes for the best photos sent in by soldiers stationed at the front. It was a unique initiative which brought the publishers great success. The exhibition offers an ample selection of photos of the events of the First World War.

Curator Stefano Viaggio
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Soldiers and their women
The image of women in Italian postcards
19 November 2005 – May 2006
  Millions of mostly male eyes were treated to messages and images, often images of women, on illustrated postcards which were sent across the globe from the time of war in Lybia right through to the Second World War. The exhibition offers a universe of female images some ingenuous others provocative, some expressing suffering others winking knowlingly. Behind theses images lies the shadow of the social history of a great part of the last century.

Curator Enrico Sturani
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Invisible to the Enemy
Military camouflage in the wars of the twentieth century 1914-2000

24/07/2004 - 28/03/2005


  Soldiers all over the world were still wearing brightly coloured uniforms as late as a hundred years ago. With the advent of the First World War this highly conspicuous clothing was abandoned and replaced by camouflage uniforms. The exhibition traces these changes through the vatious conflicts that have marked the twentieth century.
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The estreme corners of the homeland
1915 - 1918 Soldiers on the Alps

28/02/2004 - 16/01/2005


During the First World War, for the first time, the war front was pushed to the highest and most inhospitable mountain peaks of the borders between Italy and Austria ancd the mountain itself became the greatest enemy for the soldiers. The soldiers’ principle task, rather than fighting, now became the grinding, everyday work. This exhibition has chosen the mountain and the men who fought there as its subject. Photographs, written sources and documents illustrate different aspects of this hitherto unknown war.


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Women, fashion and war
Fashion and emancipation of women in the Great War

Curator: Enrica Morini and Margherita Rosina
From 13th December 2003 to 14th March 2004


The exhibition attempts to represent the relationships existed between the most important female way of dressing transformation that took place in the twentieth century and women engagement during the First World War.

The stages of this change are illustrated through a display of vintage dresses, photographic images, sketches and quotations from literary texts and fashion magazines that underline the reasons that brought women to short their skirts, to abandon the heaviest and retentive underwear and dress themselves like men or in accordance with their job.

Of greatest interest is not only the large display of wartime dresses made above all in America, but also of textiles and jersey patterns made in France and in Italy.

The contrast among the more and more simplified plain coloured and undecorated garments of the war time and those of the 20’s made of glittering and embroidered silks, clarifies the sense of the shift from a period characterized by fear and hard work to the more joyful and peaceful one of the post-war society.

 Autunno 2003
 



work to the more joyful and peaceful one of the post-war society. The exhibition is arranged following a chronological and theme-based route and is divided in six sections. Each one shows women’s changes of role, life and taste through the dressing style transformation attested by clothes.

The exhibition begins showing some pieces of the pre-war period and ends with some dresses dating back to the 20’s. 		On display are clothing of private collection and loaned by the “Woman Museum” in Merano.
They are arranged in various groups and supported by vintage photos, iconographic material taken from magazines.

The sections are articulated in twelve panels of Sir Georges Lepape published in 1921 and illustrate women life.
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Radiofront 1935 - 1945
Military broadcastings along the Italian war fronts
8th March – 21st January 2004

On show a select display (about 100 pieces) of Italian, German (among the latter stands a model of “Enigma”) English, American, French, Canadian, Russian and New Zealand radio equipments.
Enzo Benassi collector and history lover, decided to display them at the War Museum.



The exhibition is supported by images and texts, films loaned by the Archive Luce and by a sound track advertising broadcasted speeches and musical registrations. Catalogo:

Radiofronte, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 2003, pp. 125, ill.,
€ 8,50



The still front
Trenches, military camps, no-men’s-land
of the 1st Army 1917–1918 on the Trentino front
2nd March – 2nd November 2002

Between 1915 and 1918 on demand of the Italian Commands, the Military Genius photographic team took a lot of pictures along the Austro-Italian front in order to document, through thousand of large images, the territory affected by war operations.
On the occasion of this exhibition the War Museum of Rovereto presented 13 panoramas formed by 71 big pictures portraying the sector included between the Monte Baldo to the west and the Cimone d’Arsiero to the south garrisoned by the 1st Italian Army.
On display there was also a model of the enormous photographic equipments used during the War which was kindly loaned by the Genius’ historical and cultural Institute in Rome
 T. Bertè, A. Zandonati, Il fronte immobile. Trincee, baraccamenti, terra di nessuno sul fronte trentino della 1ª armata 1917-1918, Museo della Guerra – Ediizoni Osiride, Rovereto 2000, pp. 134, 13 grandi tavole con panorami fotografici, € 44,00.




Mussolini, Baratieri and the Queen Taytu
31st October – December 2001

Between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth many European purchasers asked for Ethiopian paintings particularly after the battle of Adua (1896) because of the great outcry that this event caused in the world. On display 12 paintings representing battles and African war scenes and the European from the Ethiopian artist point of view. Mussolini, Baratieri e la regina Taytu, introduzione di Paolo Marrassini, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 2001, pp. 35, € 4,70



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The colours of the Great War
An Austro-Hungarian photograph on the Italian front 1915-1918
2nd June – 20th September 2001

The exhibition displays 90 pictures taken from a set of 260 slides (founded 80 years later in the archive of the General Staff in Rome) which formed Richard Synek’s travel diary, photographer for the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War. The hand-coloured plates of glass were ordered for a public projection, through which the spectators would crossed the southern front line, from Moravia to the Carso River, Tyrol and the Piave discovering trench life, armaments, wounds and commemorating the so many Fallen.




Words out of shade
Trentino popular writings between the nineteenth and twentieth century
9th – 30th June 2000

The exhibition, organized by the History Museum in Trento, is dedicated to the popular writing produced in Trentino between the nineteenth and the twentieth century.



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Caino’s Lands
The anti-person mines in the Wars in the twentieth century wars
19th April – 3rd December 2000

The exhibition is dedicated to the anti-person mines and is the biggest ever realized in Italy. It shows different aspects related not only to mines but also to soldiers who on both slopes of the fronts put their mines and look for the enemy’s ones, to the civilians the sole enemy left after the war; to children who are the main victims and finally, to citizens who formed a movement against them. F. Cappellano, F. Termentini, Le mine antiuomo nelle guerre del ‘900, Museo della Guerra - Osiride, Rovereto 2000, € 7,80




The urns of the forts
5–28 November 1999		 The great manoeuvres
Italian Military vehicles 1910–1945
6th August – 10th October

Traces and rites of the Great War memory in Trentino and Rovereto 1915-1940.

Model-making exhibition by the Trentino model making group of study and historical research.



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Fire and iron
Ancient weapons in Trentino castles
30th May – 31st October 1999

Exhibition housed at Beseno Castle dedicated to the fire and edged weapons present in Trentino castles until the eighteenth century. The materials displayed represent a selection of Riccardo Caproni’s collection he gave to the Museum of the War in 1949. Ferro e fuoco. Le armi dei castelli trentini, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1998, pp. 48, € 5,20




Eight million postcards
The image of Mussolini in postcards
27th March – 25th July 1999

The exhibition is dedicated to the image of Mussolini in the propaganda campaign.
In the twenty years of Fascism the image of Mussolini appeared in approximately 3.000 different kinds of postcards for a total circulation of about ten million pieces.



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Cirillo Grott and the memory of the war
In memory of Malga Zonta
18th April – 20th May 1998

The memory of the war in the works of Cirillo Grott, painter, poet and sculptor (1937 – 1990).




The Armed Mountains
The Austro-Hungarian fortifications
of Folgaria and Lavarone (1908–1916)
March – September 1998		 Osvaldo Bruschetti
The figure and the form
28th July – 12th October 1997

Photographic exhibition dedicated to the Austro-Hungarian fortification remains on Folgaria and Lavarone Highplanes. The plastic art of Bruschetti housed in the ditch and in the spaces of Rovereto castle.

Osvaldo Bruschetti. La figura e la forma, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1997, pp.45, ill., € 4,70



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Anselmo Bucci
Visual chronicles of the Great War
28th June – 12th October 1997		 The Hero’s gardens
War cemeteries on the eastern front 1914-1918: images and epigraphs
24th April – 15th June 1997

Engraving and lithographies made during the war by Bucci, enlisted in the Lombard cyclists and motorist volunteer battalion in 1915.

Anselmo Bucci. Cronache visive della Grande Guerra – Croquis du Front italien, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1997, pp. 97, ill.,
€ 6,70		 Exhibition in memory of Trentino and Friuli Venezia Giulia’s soldiers enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army and fallen on the Eastern front. The pictures of the cemeteries and of the graves erected in their memory make evident some traces of this denied memory.

P. Pencakowski, I giardini degli eroi. Cimiteri di guerra sul fronte orientale 1914-1918: immagini ed epigrafi, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1997, pp.29, € 1,30




Adamello 1915-1918
Cableway, chassis and men on the iced front
21st February – 13th April 1997

Logistic transports in high mountains during the Great War. Pictures and materials that shows the White War hardness.




Armin T. Wegner and the Armenian in Anatolia, 1915
Images and traces
21st June – 1st December

The exhibition organized by the Italo-Armenian Association in Italy and by the Deutches Literaturarchive in Marbach is dedicated to Armin T. Wegner, photographer, writer, defender of civil rights and witness of the Armenian massacre in Anatolia. Armin T. Wegner e gli Armeni in Anatolia, 1915. Immagini e testimonianze, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto, 1996, pp. 45, € 1,30



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Rovereto. The target practice between the nineteenth
and the twentieth century
23rd September – 29th October 1995		 On the Lands of Galizia 1914-1917
21st July – December 1995

Trentino soldiers on the Eastern front in the First World War.

Rovereto. L’attività di Tiro al Bersaglio tra l’800 e il ‘900, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1995, pp. 105, esaurito		 I Trentini nella Prima guerra mondiale sul fronte orientale.

Sui campi di Galizia. Guida alla mostra, a cura di Gianluigi Fait e Camillo Zadra, 1995, pp. 25, ill. € 1,30
G. Fait (a cura di), Sui campi di Galizia (1914-1917), Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1997, pp.494, ill.
€ 24,80, esaurito




Flying to Vienna
April 1994		 No war
Trentino artists against the war
27th August – 30th September 1993

The exhibition is dedicated to the propagandistic exploit of “La Serenissima” squadron that took place on 9th August 1918.

AA.VV., In volo per Vienna, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1994, pp. 232, ill.
€ 15,50		 No WAR, artisti trentini contro la guerra, 1994, pp. 26. Estratto dagli “Annali” n. 3



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Africa on display
History of museums and colonial expositions in Italy
1991

Provisional setting up and critical reinterpretation of the colonial rooms that during more than thirty years, from 1929 to the sixties’, has offered visitors a nationalistic point of view on the Italian colonization of Africa. Guida alla mostra. L’Africa in vetrina. Immagini coloniali, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1991, pp. 31, € 1,50




Small armies
Soldiers and historic characters exhibition
29th July – 15th October 1989

Piccoli eserciti, Museo della Guerra, Rovereto 1989, pp. 43, €




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