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The Criminology Museum today
In 1991 the Prison
Administration began to reorganize the museum, which
had been closed for about fifteen years, revamping the layout
and, at the same time, revoking the anachronistic provision
that reserved access only for “authorized persons”. The museum
was reopened in February 1994.
In recent years, the acquisition of material evidence from
the clerk of the court’s offices has been greatly reduced.
In particular, the pieces of “historical and scientific” interest
indicated by these offices is now limited to archaeological
finds and artworks (paintings of no great value, liturgical
objects, fake artworks); while no material evidence whatsoever
of crimes committed against persons is pointed out. It should
be emphasized that the Criminology Museum’s present structure
is that of a history museum. Its scientific and educational
aims, as well as those of protection and conservation consist,
more precisely, in making the public aware of the evolution
of former punitive systems and of the main areas of research
in penitentiary science and criminology in the nineteenth
century and the first half of the twentieth century.
The new itinerary includes a chronological description of
fundamental periods in the history of justice, prisons and
criminology.
The Criminology Museum houses the Photographic and Historical
Archives of Italian Prisons. |
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