The ‘900 exhibition on the bus in Udine.
The exhibition will open on Friday 14 June 2024, with the official ribbon cutting at 5pm 1900s by bus. History of public transport in Friuliset up at the Ethnographic Museum of Friuli in via Grazzano. “900 by bus” is a historical and ethnographic project, which collects and displays numerous relics, models, photographs and vintage maps, but also rare testimonies and video interviews of the protagonists of Friulian public transport of the 20th century, who saw their change firsthand.
Thanks to the work of numerous experts, the Ethnographic Museum of Friuli has taken up a challenge whose primary objective is reconstruction of the history of private carriers that changed Friuli’s society in the 20th centurythe geographies of the region and the city of Udine. 1900s by bus‘ counts on the contribution of many witnesses and on all those who ‘took the bus’ in the last century for reasons of work, study or emigration. The exhibition will be open to visitors throughout the summer from 14 June to 13 October 2024 during museum opening hours: from Friday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00.
A journey to rediscover public transport in Friuli.
The project 1900s by bus. History of public transport in Friuli is curated by the staff of the Ethnographic Museum of Friuli, Civic Museums of Udine. It was created thanks to the support of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia as part of the creation of events and demonstrations aimed at promoting the in-depth study and knowledge of the history of the twentieth century. Other institutional partners wanted to support this museum initiative which recounts 100 years of mobility in Friuli, including the Municipality of Cividale del Friuli, the Municipality of Spilimbergo, the Mountain Community of Carnia, and the Mountain Community of Canal del Ferro and Val Canale.
“The exhibition is a modern project that aims to highlight an important aspect ofevolution of Friulian society, its habits and its organisation. Mobility has been, is and will be a determining factor in the balance and well-being of a constantly evolving population”, commented the Councilor for Culture and Education Federico Pirone. “For this reason – he added – knowing how this has changed in the last century, the century of changes, is one fundamental tool for understanding the direction that the company has taken in the recent past and where it will go in the future. In the rooms of the Ethnographic Museum – explains Pirone finally – you will see not only the past of Friulian public transport, but also how this has changed, moving from fragmentation into micro areas separated from each other, to an overall idea that connected all of Friuli, from the mountains to the sea, from east to west, passing through Udine”.
As an initiative to accompany the exhibition, during the summer the project ‘900 on the bus” will allow all interested parties to savor the taste of a vintage journey in all respects, in collaboration with the inBUSclub APS Association of Muggia which preserves and enhances the vintage buses circulating in the region in the last century. In fact, they are scheduled for the next few months guided tours and trips on vintage buses to discover the historical routes that saw thousands of Friulians travel during the 1900s, such as those in the direction of Lignano, Spilimbergo, Tarvisio and Cividale.
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