A shared space for citizens and cultural institutions to explore and reuse digital heritage, supported by artificial intelligence tools.
The Direzione generale Digitalizzazione e comunicazione of the Ministry of Culture presents Italica, the integrated access portal that brings together and enhances Italian digital cultural heritage, connecting archival, bibliographic, museum, architectural and archaeological assets.
Italica is a shared space for citizens and cultural institutions, where heritage can be explored in different ways depending on one’s needs, such as study, research or creative inspiration. The participating institutions make their digital and digitised assets available, which can be consulted and linked together, creating connections between different heritage collections and cultural fields. Depending on the licence, it is also possible to download the resources and reuse them in your own projects.
The aim of Italica is twofold: to make digital cultural heritage easier to explore, and to enhance the institutions that preserve it and make it available, creating new opportunities for people to engage with their collections.
The portal, presented at the Forum Nazionale della Cultura Digitale, in the panel “Dai dati ai servizi: la strategia di Ecomic”, was developed by the Istituto centrale per la digitalizzazione del patrimonio culturale – Digital Library using the services of Ecomic, the digital ecosystem for culture promoted by the Direzione generale Digitalizzazione e comunicazione of the Ministry of Culture.
Ways to access heritage
Research
You can search for an asset by typing a keyword or asking a question in natural language, to find assets from cultural institutions across Italy.
Explore
Five ways to explore heritage: by category, collection, key figures, institutions and places. Each one opens up links to other assets.
Paths
Thematic itineraries, created by institutions and the community, that bring together different eras, institutions and subject areas.
Start exploring heritage on Italica.