Il legame tra documentazione materiale e scritta in ambito militare

Il Museo Storico dell’Arma dei Carabinieri: i documenti–cimeli e i Complessi

Abstract

In the settings of the military heritage the material sources, i.e. the relics such us uniforms, weapons, badges, insignia, etc., together with the paper documents, are a valuable tool for the reconstruction of the historical events. The Historical Museum of the Carabinieri Corps is one of the few Italian military historical institutions that has been able to achieve, in its collections, a functioning synthesis between objects and documents and, therefore, between the Museum itself and its archival element. Such a result has been achieved by the development, in the cataloguing as well as in the exhibition itineraries, of two unprecedented categories alongside the “traditional” items collected or on display: the relics composed by written texts, even single leafs, seen as relics, called documento–cimelio, and the so–called Complesso, i.e. the set of the documents and the related relics coming from and therefore considered as a unitary system.