Storytelling in Museums: Construing Language, Heritage and Places in the Aftermath of History

The article investigates aspects of museum communication with special reference to storytelling narratives as used in museum discourse. Museology and Media studies have addressed the topic, but storytelling is not a common practice in Italian culture compared with the Anglo-Saxon context, and the example provided by the installations at the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza in Turin represent a unique case of artification of oral history worth discussing. The article aims at using an interdisciplinary approach to address oral narrative as builders of identity. With the standpoint of narrativity, I address the function of museums as collectors of memories and focus on how the narratives that wrap an exhibition and what is displayed, enhance and shape the eventness of museum stories.