DIGITAL POSTCARDS ROOM –
ANGOLO CUOMO

Starting on 26 January 2026, the Museo dell’Archivio Storico del Banco di Napoli will unveil a new environment: the Digital Postcards Room, set up in the spaces of the Angolo Cuomo, located on the lower level of the museum and conceived as the final stage of the visitor itinerary.

This is not a new exhibition space, but rather a “creative” room that integrates generative Artificial Intelligence technologies into the narration of the archival heritage. Through this system, visitors will be able to transform selected archival records into digital images.

With each new reading, even of the same document, the system generates images that are always different, allowing visitors to create a personalised souvenir born from a unique and unrepeatable interaction. The final result can be downloaded to a mobile device via QR code, becoming a digital postcard accompanied by the text of the referenced document.

“With the Digital Postcards Room, we offer the public an innovative way to engage with our records, making the archive an increasingly living, participatory space, open to dialogue with the technologies of the present,” states Marcello D’Aponte, President of the Fondazione Museo Archivio Storico Banco di Napoli.

The possibility of taking away and sharing the image generated at the end of the experience transforms the museum visit into an active and personal memory. The electronic souvenir is not merely a technological outcome, but a true tool of remembrance: a visual trace born from the direct interaction between the visitor, the archive, and the museum, capable of extending the museum experience over time and strengthening the connection between historical heritage and contemporary sensibilities.

With this new area, the Museum further reinforces its commitment to experimenting with innovative languages for the dissemination of cultural heritage, combining historical rigor with digital tools. The Museo dell’Archivio Storico del Banco di Napoli was established precisely to enhance, through multiple languages, one of the most important historical banking archives in the world, inscribed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register for its exceptional documentary value.

This heritage recounts more than four centuries of economic, social, and cultural history of Southern Italy and the Mediterranean and, through its multimedia itinerary, makes archival records accessible to a wide audience—documents that speak of famous and unknown individuals, historical events, and societies from a unique perspective.