Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

History museums

The Tasso Family and Postal History Museum is located in Cornello dei Tasso ( a small village under Camerata Cornello, Bergamo) and was founded in 1991. Spread to a number of scattered buildings in the village, the museum conserves many documents of the postal, and non-postal, activities of the illustrious Tasso family. Theses documents include a letter from 1840 stamped with the English famous "Penny Black", the first postage stamp over the world. Another room of the museum is also dedicated to the two literary glories of Tasso family: Bernerd and his most famous son Torquato, the author of the great renown poem "Jerusalem delivered". Finally, a room of the museum conserves instruments created during 19th and 20th centuries to improve the transmission of information, as telegraph and telephone: important tecnological developmentwhich have brought an end to the absolute monopoly of the letter, with enormous advantages in terms of the speed and of the trasmission of the information.