Sergio Riolo Bringing the Archives to the People, and Vice-Versa ICARUS-Meeting #20 | The Age of Digital Technology: Documents, Archives and Society 23–25 October 2017, Complutense University Madrid, Calle del Prof. Aranguren, 28040 Madrid, Spain

1. ilCartastorie: Museum at the
Banco di Napoli Historical
Archives
The Age of Technology:
Documents, Archives and
Society - 2017
Bringing the Archives to
the People, and Vice-Versa
Sergio Riolo

2. 330 rooms
75 kilometres of paper
17 million names
from old bank accounts
Bank accounts from the
middle of the 16th century
to today

3. Simple pieces of paper
representing credit documents
(actually the precursors of cashier’s
checks)
“pandettas” - large tomes with
names and surnames of ancient
bank clients

4. “accounting ledgers”, with debts
and credits for each client
“copy books” in which any credit
document was entirely transcripted
day by day

5. For Niccolò Radolovich two hundred ducats, and
from him to Michel’Angelo Caravaggio for the price
of a Painting that must be finished and delivered
before the end of next December, with a height of 13
½ palms and width of 8 ½ palms with the figures
mentioned above, the image of the Madonna with
the child in her arms surrounded by choirs of Angels
and below Saint Dominic, and Saint Francis in the
middle, with Saint Nicolas on his right and Saint
Vitus on his left.
Each economic transaction completed with
extremely detailed reasons for payment

6. The Foundation,
The Historical
Archives, and
ilCartastorie
Museum are
located deep in the
heart of Naples

11. Telling stories in any possible way is
what really counts for us
We do not exhibit papers, we exhibit
stories!