Girls in the Innocenti Archives

This issue The Curators’ Quaderno is published by Calliope Arts Foundation in conjunction with the Innocenti Institute in Florence, for the project ‘Girls in the Innocenti Archive’ and the museum exhibit of the same name (14 November 2025 to March 15, 2026) at the Innocenti Museum, thanks to the support of . of donors Connie and Doug Clark and Margie MacKinnon and Wayne McArdle.

The Quaderno traces the path that led to the impletation of the project involving the restoration, conservation, study and digitisation of approximately 120 identying tokens and related documents held in the Historical Archive, thus preserving the memory of the little “nocentine” girls and offering an insight into the condition of women in welfare institutions in the 20th century. The Quaderno can be purchased at the Bookshop for a minimum contribution of €2.