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Since 2007 the Waldensian Cultural Centre Foundation manages the Waldensian

Photographic

Archives

. They represent an important artistic and scientific resource. In 2002 they were acknowledged by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities as being of significant historical interest. The archives hold around 35,000 phototypes dating from the mid-19 th century and signed by professional and amateur photographers. The pictures consist of daguerreotypes, collodion plates, albumen photo prints, collodion printing-out paper photo prints, silver gelatin photo prints.

The richness of these images allows us to revisit significant places and people in a century of the Waldensian Church's history in Italy. They show pastors, teachers, celebrations, temples, schools, charity work, church activities, the evolution of the urban and rural landscape, changes in social settings and transformations in transport and economic activities in the Waldensian Valleys.

Part of this material belongs to the Waldensian Cultural Centre and part of it to the Waldensian Study Society that administered it from 2000 to 2006, conducting a challenging work of cataloguing, image digitalization and restoration, with the financial support of the Cultural Council Office of the Regional Council of Piedmont and the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities. Digitalization work is crucial to the preservation and availability of these essential documents that deserve greater knowledge and diffusion.

After the conservation and filing process, a CD-ROM has been produced by the Waldensian Study Society: "Valleys of light. Images from the Waldensian Photographic Archives. ".
opening times
  • photographic archives
  • Tuesday, Wednesday
    9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
    2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
    Friday
    9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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