Established by DPR no. 233 of November 26, 2007 and regulated by DM of October 7, 2008, the Central Institute for Sound and Audiovisual Heritage (ICBSA) of Rome took over the State Discotheque, from which it acquired “the skills, personnel, financial and instrumental resources, equipment, and technical and documentary material.”
The ICBSA is responsible for documenting, enhancing, and preserving the national sound and audiovisual heritage implemented by the legal deposit provided for by Law no. 106 of April 15, 2004.
Its collection currently consists of over 300,000 supports: from Edison’s wax cylinders to records, tapes, videos, and up to current digital media. It also preserves a very rich collection of historical instruments for sound reproduction: phonographs, gramophones, and other devices from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.
The ICBSA also has the task of formulating standards and guidelines for the conservation and management of sound and audiovisual assets, promoting, also in collaboration with other national and international institutions, training activities and technical-scientific studies in its fields of competence.
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