Her name is Marta Bianchi and she is the guardian of our knowledge. For months she has been working on the archives of the Museum and thanks to her work, soon we will "know all the good things"..

Today we let you peek into the "brain of the Museum", our Cozzi.Lab where we meet Marta Bianchi, a graduate in archivistics and librarianship who is working on the cataloguing and digitalization of the Museum's documents. She knows everything about us and helps us to reconstruct important pages of this "tale called Italy".

We descend the red stairs and meet her there, behind the windows of the Lab intent on ordering, archiving and recording pages and pages. 

How long have you been working at the archive?

I arrived at the Fratelli Cozzi Museum in September 2017 and to date more than 2500 documents have been catalogued including books, manuals and posters (about 10,000 pages).

 What's the next step?

(Smiles, sighs) We're starting to catalogue the photographs and digitize them.

The amount of work will be important because there are so many photos preserved in these first 60 years of activity. Some of the material will be available online at a later date. 

Was there anything in particular that struck you these months?

The amount of different models, like the Giulietta and Alfa 33. I didn't think there were so many models for each type! I was also amazed by some really nice advertisements. There are some amazing calendars from the 80s and 90s. 

We say goodbye to Marta who returns to focus on the amount of work that still awaits her and thank her for her extraordinary contribution. She is certainly among the cornerstones of the Museum.