The Archival Superintendency for Campania plans to undertake various promotional activities in 2006 encompassing a broad variety of archives. Within the framework of a project addressing the archives of contemporary art galleries, launched in 2000 with resources made available by Section III of the General Directorate for Archives, a documentary, photographic and iconographic exhibition will be held in January on a gallery that began life in the 1960s as Il Centro and is still active today as the Galleria Dina Carola. Support has been received in this connection from the Banco di Napoli Foundation for the catalogue now being published by the Naples branch of Electa. (Promotion)

In collaboration with the ANAI Campania Section, a one-day conference will be held in January at the Superintendency on the new technologies made possible by highly specialized equipment provided by the Naples-based Memini Consortium for the protection, promotion and utilization of cultural heritage. The participants will include Gigliola Fioravanti director of the State Archives Centre of Reprography, Binding and Restoration. (Digital)

The programme for January also includes a photographic exhibition at the Fienga Castle in Nocera Umbra on Campania’s particularly active canning industry. The oldest labels and advertising posters will also be exhibited.

The inventory of the historical archives of Neapolitan provincial section of the CIF (Centro italiano femminile) is also to be presented in the early months of 2006. (Promotion)

Within the framework of the project entitled “La tela del Mediterraneo”, the programme for 2006 includes seminars organized by the Eleonora Pimentel Association in collaboration with the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, the International League for Rights and Liberation of Peoples, the Archival Superintendency for Campania, the Lelio Basso Foundation, IMED, and the Mediterranean Women’s Press Network.

The events planned for the 13th “May of Monuments” will include two documentary exhibitions, one at the Bovio-Colletta nursery and school and the other at the Leonardo da Vinci technical college, both in Naples. Founded in 1906, the college is the only one from Tuscany to Sicily operating in the textile sector. Given that 2006 marks its centenary, a project is underway whereby the members of class 4 have been suitably trained and are working with officials of the Superintendency on the arrangement of the school’s historical archives. It is also planned to publish the inventory, which will be presented within the framework of the events organized for the centennial celebrations.

Three exhibitions are planned for the “Week of Culture”, one in Naples on the archives of the transport company, one in Ischia to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the construction of the port, including unpublished material from the municipal archives, and one in Caserta at the diocesan archives, which is exhibiting its rarest and most ancient documents for the first time.