Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Institutional activities in 2004
Cultural heritage and activities
The Film Commission
Foundation’s wallpaper
Cultural Services
Archives and Libraries
Much attention has been given here to the complex operation of creating the new Cultural Centre –
Turin’s Civic Library, which should perform an important role in city life. The library, as workshop for
cultural training is, therefore, the defining characteristic of the area’s more significant activities, where
co-operation with the Piedmont Region comes to the fore on the Born to Read network project. In the
area of archives, supporting reorganisation works, restoration and document digitalisation has been
subordinate to the notification of the Superintendent’s interest and provision of simultaneous or
subsequent research studies to publicise activity results. These features in fact distinguish projects
by the Longhi Foundation, the Nuova Antologia Spadolini Foundation, the Compagnia di Sant’Anna
dei Luganesi and the Valperga di Masino.
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Cultural research and dissemination
Research in the cultural field has developed on two levels – national and international. The first,
national, focuses on analysing specific cultural areas and their development routes. Of particular
importance are research studies “Memories of Turin in 1900” by the A. Gramsci Istituto Piedmont,
“Crescendo napoletano: il distretto culturale del Presepe a Napoli” of the Department of Economics