A selection of online references useful for historical and Salesian research: archives of religious institutes, libraries, study centres, museums and institutional links.
Archives of religious institutes
Online references of some archives of male and female institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life.
- Augustinians
- Centro Studi Antoniani
- Barnabites
- Benedictines
- Camillians
- Canossians
- Capuchins
- Carmelites
- Somascan Clerics Regular
- Cistercians
- Claretians
- Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri
- Dehonians
- Franciscans
- Jesuits
- Guanellians
- Redemptorists
- General Historical Archive of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
- Rosminians
- Xaverians
- Scalabrinians
Libraries
The ASC is connected to the Portal of the Libraries of Roman Pontifical Universities and Institutions (PARSIFAL), which cooperate thanks to the network of the Roman Union of Ecclesiastical Libraries (URBE). The project includes, among others:
- Pontifical University Antonianum
- Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
- Pontifical Gregorian University
- Pontifical Lateran University
- Salesian Pontifical University
- Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)
- Pontifical Urban University
- Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselm
- Pontificium Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum
- Pontifical Biblical Institute
- Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II
- Pontifical Oriental Institute
- Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium
- Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum
- Alphonsian Academy
- Centro Pro Unione
See also the Register of Italian Libraries.
Salesian study centres
Italian institutional resources for Salesian studies and research on Don Bosco:
- Salesian Historical Institute and the Association of Scholars of Salesian History
- Don Bosco Study Centre
- Don Bosco Library of the Salesian Pontifical University
And international resources, including:
- Institute of Salesian Studies — Don Bosco Hall (Berkeley, California, USA)
- Salesian Biblical Association
- Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego (Scientific Assoc. of St Francis de Sales, Warsaw)
- Centro Salesiano de Documentação e Pesquisa (Barbacena, Brazil)
- CES Don Bosco — Salesian University Centre (Madrid, Spain)
- Centro Salesiano Regional de Formación Permanente América
- Salesian Center for Faith and Culture (Center Valley, PA)
- Institut für Salesianische Spiritualität
Since 2013 the site donboscosanto.eu (Salesians of the North-East Italy province) has published Don Bosco’s writings and other Salesian writings online. From the collaboration between the Don Bosco Study Centre (UPS) and the Study Centre on the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Auxilium) came Salesian OnLine Resource.
Salesian museums
Salesian houses hold permanent and temporary exhibitions of documents and objects linked to Don Bosco, the saints and the Salesian tradition. Some notable museums:
- Museo Casa Don Bosco (Turin, Valdocco)
- Ethnographic Museum of the Don Bosco Missions (Turin, Valdocco)
- Missionary Ethnological Museum of Colle Don Bosco (Morialdo, Asti)
- Museum of 19th-century Peasant Life (Morialdo, Asti)
- Mamma Margherita Museum (Capriglio)
- Don Bosco Visitor Centre (Chieri)
- Don Bosco Natural History Museum, Valsalice (Turin, Valsalice)
- Martí-Codolar Museum (Barcelona, Spain)
- Museo Regional Salesiano, Rawson (Argentina); missionary museum (Dimapur, India); theologate museum (Shillong, India); International Museum of the Nativity (Bethlehem); missionary museum (Warsaw, Poland); and others in Argentina, Chile, China, Korea, Peru, Uruguay and Brazil.
In 2024 the Missions Sector produced a portfolio of the Salesian museums: Salesian Museums (PDF).
Useful links
- Italian Library Association — https://www.aib.it/
- Catalogue of the National Library Service (SBN) — https://opac.sbn.it/
- Italian National Archival Association — https://anai.org/
- International Council of Museums (ICOM) — https://icom.museum/en/
- Vatican Apostolic Archive
- Vatican Museums — https://www.museivaticani.va/