Inaugurates on 27th June You are here, the new exhibition that is part of the "GO! 2025" program, Nova Gorica - Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025. Organized by Erpac Fvg - Regional Authority for the Cultural Heritage of Friuli Venezia Giulia, the exhibition is an ideal journey through places and memories of the Gorizia area from the 18th century to World War I, with some border crossings: a path made of objects, artworks, photographs, documents, and books that tell a story full of facets, returned to the public through a selection of significant elements of high symbolic value from the collections of the Provincial Museums. You are here is hosted at Palazzo Attems Petzenstein in Gorizia, and will be open for visits until 31st October 2025.

The idea of the exhibition arises from the desire to define the identity of a territory through the collections that have accumulated over the centuries in museums, libraries, and archives: in particular, the identity of a multicultural territory like Gorizia is by its nature multifaceted and indefinable, and its cultural heritage is the litmus test. Hence, the story of the territory through the staging of the collections of the Provincial Museums of Gorizia. Visitors of You are here will be able to discover multiple facets of the city: from the institutional, political, and economic history, preserved in the documents of the Provincial Historical Archive, to the multilingual literary heritage of the Provincial Library, which testifies to the editorial prestige of the territory, chosen by figures like Giacomo Casanova and Rodolfo Coronini. The visible face of Gorizia then takes shape in the Photo Library and the Art Gallery, which preserve the most significant expressions of local artistic production, including the famous works of the Gorizia artist Giuseppe Tominz, along with family and religious order art collections.

The geopolitical location before the County and then the Province of Gorizia is illustrated by imperial parchments and a series of geographical maps from the Provincial Historical Archive. The face of the city is instead told through maps, paintings, and especially through photographs and postcards that make up the rich heritage of the Photo Library. An extraordinary document of the agricultural landscape of the territory is found in the Art Gallery and consists of a painting commissioned at the end of the 19th century to Hugo Charlemont by the Imperial Royal Agricultural Society of Gorizia, depicting the fruits of Gorizia in their infinite varieties, highly appreciated throughout Europe: cherries, plums, apples, pears, raspberries, currants, peaches, medlars, apricots, lemons, melons, grapes, walnuts, chestnuts. The painting was a gift for the President of the association, Count Francesco Coronini of the San Pietro branch, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his presidency, which began in 1870: this explains the almost photographic accuracy in rendering the fruit, expertly arranged according to the different ripening stages. Gorizia is a border territory and therefore multicultural and multilingual, as revealed by endless and multifaceted clues: from cooking recipes to theater posters, through the rich multilingual book production and excellent schools, such as those of the Jesuits, Ursulines, and the legendary Staatsgymnasium.