Museo della Cartolina «Salvatore Nuvoli»

About the museum

The Museo della Cartolina in Isera was founded at the end of the 1980s, when the collector Carmelo Nuvoli donated his collection to the Comune. In 1992 the museum was named after his father, Salvatore Nuvoli, and in March 1994 it opened to the public. The first rooms resembled a “cabinet of curiosities”, with old books on the walls.

The museum is a documentation centre on the illustrated postcard, an Austro-Hungarian invention regarded as the ancestor of today’s short messages. The over 35,000 postcards, from 1869 to the present day, are kept in more than two hundred albums and divided into nineteen themes: over ten thousand concern Trento and Bolzano, about two thousand the First World War, about fifteen hundred technology and more than seven hundred music. Food, sport and religion are also represented. There are also patriotic propaganda, political satire and postcards made of cardboard, leather, wood and cork.

The materials also include posters, prints, ex libris, calendars and a collection of erinnofili, the small stamps that once sealed letters, as well as a library of about 5,000 volumes. For reasons of space, only a part, about a thousand items, is displayed on rotation; the others can be consulted in catalogues and binders.

Highlights

• Over 35,000 postcards from 1869 to the present day, in nineteen themes
• Postcards on the First World War and political satire
• Collection of erinnofili, posters, prints and ex libris
• One of the smallest postcards in the world, from Cuba
• Specialised library of about 5,000 volumes

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione di cartoline – Rotating display of about a thousand postcards, posters, prints, ex libris and erinnofili from the collection of over 35,000 pieces.

Operated by

Comune di Isera

Visitors per year

approx. 300

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: no information
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

The provincial listing refers to an accessibility statement, but does not indicate specific facilities.

Kids & families

Tourist listings describe the museum as suitable for families.

Getting there & parking

The museum is in Isera, home of the Marzemino wine, in Via Galvagni.

Amenities & dining

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Events & venue rental

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