Il portale del cittadino - Comune di Sesto San Giovanni

 The Township Tells Its Story

With the closure of the large factories, the idea of collecting, organising, highlighting and handing down the memories of industrial and working-class Sesto began to make headway. Not just to preserve the history of the past, but to strengthen the community of Sesto San Giovanni’s feeling of belonging to a cohesive body, so that the townspeople could share the stages covered, take new steps and reorganise themselves for the re-launch of their town and its area.
In this way the plan for the Museum of Industry and Labour began to take shape: a museum which was not to be merely a physical, closed place in which to gather together exhibits and show them to visitors, but a scattered museum to maintain alive the testimonies to the industrial past and give the townspeople the tools to interpret them.
This sort of driving nucleus has spread with various “antennae” scattered around the area, giving out and receiving signals. The town has started to tell its story, its history and present-day relevance. A process of regeneration has thus been set in motion, the generation of a collective awareness, a highly vigilant, active and receptive awareness, as you will discover in the initiatives we describe in this section.