Two centuries of online history: here is the new Italgas digital archive

Creating knowledge, protecting cultural heritage, safeguarding memory: it is with these objectives that Italgas has created a new digital home to collect the stories of people, companies and achievements of the country made accessible through important digitization work. The site heritagelab.italgas.it thus becomes the container of the historical archive that the company has collected in more than two centuries of activity, first bringing light to the streets and premises, then the heating, hot water and gas stoves in the homes of millions of people. It consists of over three linear kilometers of documentation that through digital transformation are progressively made available to historians, researchers and onlookers from all over the world.

The portal, explains Italgas in a note, is an ideal bridge between past and future, between history and innovation, which aims to create value and shared memory with territories and communities, contributing to new possible interpretations and discoveries. “At first glance, the digital world and the materials stored in the Heritage Lab – commented Chiara Ganz, director of external relations and sustainability at Italgas – may seem the opposite of each other. But it is only an appearance: the challenge of digital transformation consists in identifying a path that allows you to create a connection and enhance a history of almost two centuries that is not only of Italgas but of the entire country. Heritage Lab is another important piece of digitization that has affected our group: innovation not only applies but is created within it and through the new portal we will make knowledge more accessible to everyone, in the awareness that there is no future. without memory “.