The collection, which focuses mainly on sweet and biscuit tins, shows how even objects of daily use such as these tins which contained biscuits, sweets and chocolate, ended up mirroring the events that took place around them.

From the very first ones made at the turn of the century in the early days of industrialisation, moving on through the Monarchy, Fascism, the Africa Campaign, the war, the post war years right up to the economic boom.

A journey in time experienced by passing through a “sweet” portal, that enables us to witness the development of graphics and advertising and how we moved from the first boxes which proudly showed the “plants” with smoking chimney stacks, to today’s white flour mill; it also provides us with indications as to when certain sweets and biscuits were first produced, many of which are still on the market today, with names such as Vittorio, Margherita, Elena and Savoiardi, followed by Dux, Balilla and chocolate for the troops (removed from the catalogues) up to the Morette and the Nugatine which were produced in honour of the Negus (the Emperor of Ethiopia, with whom the Italian Government had drawn up a friendship agreement in the Twenties, NdT).

An intriguing way of reviewing our history; among vanilla, cinnamon and chocolate essences.