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History of the household goods of Warehouse 18
Towards the end of the 80s, in the Port of Trieste, work was underway on the construction of the Adria Terminal, a modern port infrastructure for the import and export of goods by ship. In order to have the space necessary for the construction of the new facility, two warehouses of the old Austro-Hungarian port had to be demolished; warehouse 21 and 22, both buildings overlooking the sea. These warehouses, however, were not empty. In fact, over the years, the household goods of Istrian exiles deposited in Trieste and also collected from the approximately 120 refugee camps present throughout the country had been collected inside them. In the 50s and 60s, left behind by the...
Warehouse 26. An international museum hub is about to be born
The works on the second floor of the museum complex where the institution aimed at preserving and enhancing the traditions and historical and cultural heritage of the Italian populations of Istria will soon be set up have been completed. The spaces and museum services created on the second floor of Warehouse 26 in Porto Vecchio in Trieste have been presented and delivered. The works on the second floor were completed in recent days and will allow the museum material currently stored in Warehouse 18 to be moved and enhanced with the historical household goods of exiles from Istria and the Eastern Adriatic. An investment of 1 million euros. The following intervened on site:...
Cristicchi's "Exodus" Returns to Theaters
In the Old Port of Trieste there is a particularly touching "place of memory": Warehouse No. 18. It tells of a painful page in the history of Italy, of a complex story of our twentieth century that is never well known, and if possible made even more heartbreaking by the fact that its memory has been entrusted not to an imposing monument but to many, small, humble testimonies that belong to everyday life. In the old port of Trieste, Warehouse No. 18 preserves chairs, wardrobes, mattresses, beds and dishes, photographs, toys, every common good in the flow of so many lives interrupted by history, and by the Exodus: with the Peace Treaty of 1947 Italy lost vast...
