Heritage

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With Heritage, the University of Pavia showcases its cultural heritage projects, bringing together research, innovation and culture

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Heritage

Heritage showcases cultural heritage research through projects developed at the University of Pavia. A digital platform bringing together expertise, ideas and resources to explore cultural heritage from an interdisciplinary perspective and make research accessible to a wider audience.

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30/07/2026

Thesaurus Primo Levi

Thesaurus Primo Levi. Genesi e disseminazioni di un corpus novecentesco is a PRIN research project coordinated by the University of Pavia in collaboration with the Universities of Padua, Parma and Turin, and the International Primo Levi Center. Conceived to deepen the understanding of Primo Levi’s language, culture and literary production,…
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27/07/2026

SCRIBEMUS

SCRIBEMUS. Scribes of Musical Cultures. Decoding Early Technologies of Music Writing in Latin Europe (ca. 900-1100) is a five-year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Coordinated by the University of Pavia in partnership with the University of Bristol, the project investigates the origins and spread of musical notation…
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26/07/2026

REM@KE

REM@KE (Reconstructing Embodied Musical Knowledge at the Keyboard) is a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through a Synergy Grant. Its aim is to reconstruct the sound and function of lost historical musical instruments while developing new theoretical, experimental and digital tools to investigate the musical knowledge that…
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25/07/2026

Tognazzi Archive

The Archivio Tognazzi was established in 2015 through a collaboration between the Municipality of Cremona and the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage at the University of Pavia. Its mission is to preserve, study and promote the documentary heritage of Ugo Tognazzi, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century…
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24/07/2026

Manzoni Online

Manzoni Online is a research project born from the collaboration between universities, libraries and research institutions with the aim of documenting, studying and promoting Alessandro Manzoni’s documentary heritage. Funded through the Italian PRIN research programme and developed in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense and the Centro Nazionale di Studi…
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23/07/2026

Musical Instrument Collection

The Musical Instrument Collection of the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage at the University of Pavia was established to preserve, study and promote a heritage of outstanding historical, artistic and scientific value. Built over the years through donations, acquisitions and research activities, the collection includes original instruments, copies of…
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22/07/2026

Centro Studi Gadda

Fifty years after his death, Carlo Emilio Gadda (Milan, 1893 - Rome, 1973) is more alive than ever: his work continues to be read, studied and interpreted in Italy and abroad. Founded by Mariarosa Bricchi, Paola Italia, Giorgio Pinotti and Claudio Vela, the Centro Studi Gadda (CSG) is based at…
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21/07/2026

Resilient Materials

Materiali resistenti. Indagini diagnostiche e beni culturali (Resilient Materials. Diagnostic Investigations and Cultural Heritage) is a six-episode video series presenting the work of the Arvedi Laboratory for Non-Invasive Diagnostics, part of the Degree Programme in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, University…
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20/07/2026

Cinema storici

Cinema storici is a research project dedicated to the documentation, study and promotion of Italy’s historic cinemas that are still in operation. Developed as part of the PRIN 2020 “CinEx. Spaces, Practices and Policies of Film Exhibition in Italy” research project, it considers cinemas as a form of cultural heritage where…
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