"Cesare Lombroso" Museum of Criminal Anthropology. University of Turin

A cura di: P. Bianucci, C. Cilli, G. Giacobini, G. Malerba, S. Montaldo

Traduttore: Peter W. Christie

Edizioni: Hapax Editore

Anno: 2019

Formato: 15 x 21 cm; 96 pp; ill.

This guide includes the texts of the panels in the rooms of the Museum. The 2009, the centenary of the Cesare Lombroso’s death, founder of criminal anthropology, saw the renovation of “his” museum, unique in the world. The collections include anatomical specimens, drawings, photographs, examples of material evidence, written documents, and valuable craft and artistic works created by asylum and prison inmates. Therefore, the musuem is not a collection of tools of punishment, nor does it offer the public a sequence of great criminals and ferocious crimes: it is not a musuem of horror. Instead, it presents the thoughts of a scientist strongly interested in the problems of his time and driven by a profound curisoity toward crime and any form of deviance from the norms of 19th century bourgeois society, with abnormality also considered in a positive sense in people of artistic, scientifi c or political genius able to bring about human progress.