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Francesco Lucioli, winner of the 2025 edition of the Barnaba Prize, Alessandro Bollo, Roberto Ferrari, Natalia Cangi.

On September 19, the prize-giving ceremony of the second edition of the Premio Barnaba. Un museo una storia was held at Pieve Santo Stefano, as a satellite event of the Premio Pieve Saverio Tutino award ceremony. The Premio Barnaba is a literary contest dedicated to unpublished autobiographical short stories, which is promoted by Museo Galileo in collaboration with the Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale and sponsored by ICOM Italia and Associazione Nazionale Musei Scientifici.

The judging panel—made up of Monica Barni, Massimo Bucciantini, Natalia Cangi, Enzo Rammairone, Emanuela Rossi, and Domenico Scarpa—awarded the Prize to “La felicità è una mela” by Francesco Lucioli. This text, together with the other 26 finalist short stories, will be collected in a book published by the Edizioni Museo Galileo.

On the same occasion, the book Un museo, una storia. I racconti del Premio Barnaba. Edizione 2024 - which brings together the finalist texts from the first edition of the Prize - was launched.

In addition to the judging panel, the ceremony was attended by Natalia Cangi, Organisation Director of the Fondazione Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, Roberto Ferrari, Executive Director of the Museo Galileo, and by Alessandro Bollo, Director of the Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano, who interviewed the 2025 winner and some of the 2024 finalists attending the ceremony.

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