The Museum of Badger and Postal History was founded in 1991, in two historic buildings in the medieval village of Cornello. Cornello was the birthplace of the Tasso family, known all over the world for the literary work of Torquato Tasso and for the entrepreneurial skills of some of its members, who founded and managed the European postal service for centuries.
The Museum is divided into four exhibition spaces, each of which develops and deepens the postal history and the history of the Tasso family. Here, in fact, are preserved numerous documents related to their activity in the management of postal services and, in general, postal history, including a letter of 1840 stamped with the first stamp issued in the world, the famous Penny Black.
The rooms of the museum are divided as follows:
Room 1
The family tree room of the Tasso family, in which the family documentation is present and some examples of the first stamps can be seen.
Room 2
room dedicated to the complex organization of the postal service and the transport of letters and passengers, where you can see some postal cards from 1700-1800, used by postal couriers, as well as by the first tourists.
Room 3
room dedicated to the figures of the men of letters Bernardo and Torquato Tasso, the author of "La Gerusalemme liberata" and to a collection of objects used for the transmission of information, such as the leather saddlebag for the delivery of letters, the telegraph, the first telephones and a model of laptop computer created by Olivetti in the nineties.
Mercatorum Hall
exhibition space dedicated to temporary exhibitions.
