Turin 1911: The World's Fair in Italy is the first digital project devoted to the last historical world’s fair in Italy before World War I. Though World's fairs were among the West's largest mass-attended events, they were also ephemeral occurrences designed to exhibit, rather than preserve, the changing world of modernity. Turin 1911 was no exception. Once the Fair was dismantled, its artifacts were scattered among institutional archives and private collectors, thus failing to be studied in a systematic manner.
The website is divided into three main sections: (1) The Project, (2) Glossary, and (3) Explore. Ancillary pages complete the website: the Acknowledgements page displays all the institutions contributing to the project, especially the repositories; the Donate page provides information on how to support the project.
Besides illustrating the Content, the Project section describes the History of the research project, introduces the multidisciplinary team, the adopted methodology, a list of the team’s publications and news related to the project.