Top of the World
The small museum Casa De Gasperi, inaugurated in 2006 with the intention of preserving the memory of De Gasperi's work and of transmitting his experience, values and message from one generation to another, represents a document and a testimony of the roots and the link, never ceased, of the statesman with this area of Trentino. The main object is the building itself, as physical and ideal testimony to the origins of De Gasperi, a monument-document whose preservation has been guaranteed. It is a document that tells of a De Gasperi who was first a citizen of the Hapsburg Empire, then Italian and European, but always from Trentino, in a continuous dialogue between his personal history and the history of politics and institutions, which he himself helped to determine. The museum's heritage can count on a rich iconographic apparatus, with images and objects of strong symbolic value. The exhibition itinerary, taking advantage of the morphology of the building, is organized essentially as a discovery itinerary, which provides the visitor with multiple stimuli for in-depth study, both during the visit and at subsequent times, in particular through the potential offered by the web. In order to document in a wider way the different aspects of the figure of De Gasperi, his work and other important moments of his personal history, the museum of Pieve Tesino offers an information structure based on multimedia resources (films, image databases and digital documents) located on the top floor of the building and called "Laboratorio De Gasperi". Together with 15 other European sites, the museum was awarded the prestigious "European Heritage Label" in Brussels. The attribution of the label confirms its uniqueness at the national level and guarantees its inclusion in a European circuit. The De Gasperi House joins the other Houses of the Fathers of Europe: the Adenauer Haus, the Maison de Jean Monnet, the Maison de Robert Schuman.
