Hungarian and Italian Memorial Houses: a shared resource for culture

The exhibition will be held in Italy and Hungary and is made from a collaboration between the National Association Houses of Memory, the Petőfi Literary Museum in Budapest and the Hungarian Literary Memorial Houses. The Hungarian ambassador in Italy János Balla has confirmed his presence at the opening ceremony.
The exhibition is curated jointly by Adriano Rigoli, President of the Associazione Nazionale Case della Memoria, and Csilla E. Csorba, General Director of the Museum of Budapest Petőfi. 

The theme of the exhibition is in the network of Italian house-museums of famous characters which now has 38 homes in 8 Italian regions, including the Keats -Shelley House in Piazza di Spagna in Rome.The exhibition illustrates the history of the Museo Pietro Canonica in Rome, the prestigious house museum wherein the exhibition is held. The project stems from the relations of friendship and international cooperation that were born in the context of ICOM (International Council of Museums), and in particular the ICLM Thematic Committee (International Committee for Literary Museums and Composers).
After Rome, the exhibition will be hosted by the Casa Natale di Enzo Ferrari in Modena, the Bendani Geophysical Observatory in Faenza, the Enrico Caruso Museum in Lastra a Signa, on the hills around Florence, and in Hungary (Budapest Petőfi Literary Museum, the Memorial House of the writer Mór Jókai in Balatonfüred, the Memorial House of the writer Sándor Petőfi to Kiskoros).