The image of Trento from the 16th to the 20th century

After several months of work, the rooms on the ground floor of the Praetorian Palace will reopen to the public on Friday, May 13 at 6 p.m. In these evocative rooms – expanded and renovated – visitors will find an exhibition section dedicated to the image of Trento between the 16th and 20th century. Through paintings, prints and photographs from the Museum's collections, it will be possible to discover how the face of the city has changed over the past five centuries, from the Council of Trento to World War II. With this permanent exhibition, the Museum goal is to make available to everybody an important heritage of art and culture, a place to discover and deepen the knowledge of Trento, its urban evolution, and the salient episodes of its recent history.

The exhibition itinerary is divided into three different sections, organized in chronological order: the first room collects prints and paintings from the 16th-18th centuries that show the older face of the city of Trento, enclosed in crenellated medieval walls and protected to the north by the bend of the Adige River, rectified between 1854 and 1858.
The second room is devoted to the image of Trento between the 18th and 19th centuries; during this period, new ways of representing urban space widened the view to the surrounding area, projecting the city's skyline against the backdrop of the mountains.
The photographs exhibited in the third and final room document the transformations experienced by the Trento area and its buildings between 1850 and 1945. All the images belong to the historical photographic fund of the Diocesan Museum of Trent and are being exhibited to the public for the first time.

A huge thank you to the Autonomous Province of Trento and Cassa di Trento. Credito Cooperativo Italiano for the fundamental collaboration and for making possible the opening of the new exhibition spaces.