Italian Fashion History and Cultural Heritage: data for a a Tourist Guide

The essay wants to introduce a mapping base, currently in progress, relative to museums, archives of fashion, costume galleries, present in Italy, such as constituent elements for the construction of a tourist guide, dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of knowledge Italian heritage, as well as a possible "offer" to create new spaces for Heritage and Tourism. The data presented here are drawn from the research “Galleries of Costume and Fashion History Museum: Italian Opportunities for International Tourism and Local Development”, planned in Rimini Campus University of Bologna. The general plan of research was officially presented during the 5th International Congress “Science and Technology for the Safeguard of Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranea Basin”, Istanbul Turkey 22-25 November 2011. Given the current research, the general outlines of the project and some initial data provided by the work of historians are provided below without claim of completeness.