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Camillo Zadra, current director of the Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra in Rovereto, reminds us that every museum is, beyond what it tells, a social fact, because in fact it could not exist without a significant participation of individuals who make donations. The Great War, for its part, has disseminated over the years, in Italian and European families, hundreds of thousands of relics that today remain preserved so as not to forget the tragedy of its story. It is not difficult to verify how many of these objects are found in museum collections and bring to life a multiplicity of stories of soldiers, weapons, civilian populations and landscapes. In this sense, the path that each visitor can take inside the Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra in Rovereto takes on value for the vital force that its preserved heritage expresses, in the spirit of an itinerary in which what remains pulsates like an object that still has a voice and can intensely tell the strength of the past…