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Specifically for the year 2024, the MUMEC Museo dei Mezzi di Comunicazione in Arezzo proposes a calendar of events entirely dedicated to the history of telecommunications to celebrate a series of fundamental anniversaries:
150 years since the birth of Guglielmo Marconi
100 years of broadcasting in Italy
70 years of Rai Italian radio-television
The exhibition "Il Mondo in Tasca" will be the protagonist of the year. It testifies how technology has brought a constant and widespread ease of information. "L'ha detto la Radio" was the key phrase of the years of large-scale diffusion of the radio, which first established itself as the absolute protagonist in the dissemination of information. It has always been considered the voice of truth, and with time, will be joined by TV and online information.
The exhibition - open until February 2025, will feature original equipment recalling the early successes of Marconi, the inventor of Radio, from 1895 onward. They will be followed by vintage apparatus from the early 1920s (the beginning of Italian radio) and later eras up to pocket transistors as evidence of the constant miniaturization of technology. The novel bust of Marconi, made around 1930 by the Turin sculptor Giuseppe Bottinelli, will be exposed.
The volume of over 350 pages 'Il Mondo in Tasca', written by Prof. Fausto Casi, Founder and Scientific Curator of the MUMEC, and a bronze medal, celebrating all the above-mentioned events, created specifically by the Arezzo sculptor Enzo Scatragli, are the spearheads of the celebrations in Arezzo.
