Municipal Library of Impruneta and Maria Maltoni Archive

The Maria Maltoni Archive is kept in the Municipal Library of Impruneta. It is mostly made up of notebooks, drawings, class newspapers by the children who attended the rural school of San Gersolè, a hamlet of Impruneta, and who had Maria Maltoni as their teacher at this school from 1920 to 1956, the year when she retired.

The material compiled by the pupils and included in the archive is the result of the selection made by the teacher during her years of educating children, among all the papers that she thought as matching her own educational project more closely.
 
It consists of more than 1600 notebooks, 35 sketchbooks, a photo album containing pupils' drawings and essays; about 2400 drawings by the teacher's pupils in a variety of sizes; 600 “Newspapers” that were made weekly in class.

In addition to the pupils' papers the archive also features the writings of teacher Maltoni: from those of a more institutional nature such as 32 class registers from 1933 to 1956 and 95 notebooks and many files with pupils' diaries which she copied, to the more personal ones such as diaries, notes and correspondence. Furthermore, there are photographs, newspaper and periodical articles by and about Maria Maltoni and her wealth of educational experience.

In order to ensure the proper preservation and protection of the originals, most of the notebooks and drawings of the Maria Maltoni archive are accessible on digital media copies.

Consultation is allowed upon booking.