The Museum’s purpose is to reconstruct the most important stages in the history of writing, from the signs traced on stone up to today’s digital writing, and to illustrate the evolution of signs, alphabets and of the supports on which writing has been deposited and preserved in the course of time. Several ancient writings of the Mediterranean are documented with copies or plasters of the originals: clay tablets with cuneiform characters, Egyptian papyruses and canopicjars with hieroglyphics, several of the principal Etruscan inscriptions (the Pyrgi laminas, the Perugina Cippus, the Tabula Cortonensis, the Bronze Liver of Piacenza, etc.) and, finally, military diplomas and fistulae aquariae (lead pipes) of the Roman epoch.

The Museum is completed by a series of workshops that seek to stimulate the capacity for observation of the younger guests who are free to touch, use, and handle the objects and instruments on show. Young people can also expand on several themes such as Egyptian and Etruscan writing, the medieval scriptorium and printing with a press.