At "Le Gallerie" in Piedicastello in Trento, the exhibition path dedicated to the Alps and the understanding of the mountain will be inaugurated, promoted by the Trentino Historical Museum Foundation with the Trento Film Festival: a journey through the history of the Alps to discover the relationship between man and nature, the challenges to promote the culture of sustainability and the great transformations that have affected the Trentino mountain in recent centuries.
The exhibition is curated by researchers from the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino Alessandro de Bertolini, Luca Caracristi and Sara Zanatta and aims to understand the mountain, the one lived, the one perceived and the one governed in a historical moment crossed by enormous accelerations and changes, where the Alps, the middle ground, are at the centre of change. The presence of infrastructures, industries, mass tourism, communication routes and, more generally, the multiplier effects of human strength connected to the massive use of technological prostheses, have brought mountain territories to the centre of attention. In this continuous change, the Alps have become a large transnational and multi-ethnic study laboratory for the development of good practices and for the elaboration of eco-sustainable territorial organization models.
The exhibition focuses on the last centuries, from the late Middle Ages onwards, when the rural colonisation of the mountains laid the foundations for the birth of the Alpine landscape as we know it. The themes chosen are divided into a series of actions that identify as many areas on display: living, conquering, governing, telling, working and representing the Alps. In addition to these actions, there are three important thematic focuses on the UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites, the Italian Alpine Club (CAI) and the Tridentine Mountaineers' Society (SAT).
