The National Archaeological Museum brings to light this Thursday the Travel diary of Emilio Camps Cazorla , an unpublished manuscript that recounts the study trip that in the fall of 1930 , 85 years ago, three MAN conservatives undertook for Italy and France to complete their academic and professional training. In addition to the written edition, all the documentation (postcards, photographs and drawings) will be available online from the website of the Museum in free and open access. The presentation will be on Thursday, November 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conference Room of the National Archaeological Museum.
Bound by hand in two volumes by the author himself, the original contains numerous images and notes on the sites, objects and museums visited , which constitute an invaluable source for the study of cultural heritage and Italian cities in the early years of the Mussolini regime and those prior to the destruction of the Second World War . The documentation offers a very faithful snapshot of the Europe that leaves the Roaring Twenties behind and faces the Great
Depression after the Crash of 29.
In 1930, a young man Camps, 27 years old had just joined the facultative body of Archivists, Librarians and Archaeologists and he had been commissioned to undertake this trip, which he will carry out together with Blas Taracena and Joaquín María de Navascués , also museum curators and years later directors of the National Archaeological Museum . 