The Tasso Family and Postal History Museum is located in Cornello dei Tasso ( a small village under Camerata Cornello;Bergamo) and was founded in 1991.Spread to a number of scattered buildings in the village;the museum conserves many documents of the postal;and non-postal;activities of the illustrious Tasso family.
Theses documents include a letter from 1840 stamped with the English famous "Penny Black";the first postage stamp over the world.
Another room of the museum is also dedicated to the two literary glories of Tasso family:Bernerd and his most famous son Torquato;the author of the great renown poem "Jerusalem delivered".
Finally;a room of the museum conserves instruments created during 19th and 20th centuries to improve the transmission of information;as telegraph and telephone:important tecnological developmentwhich have brought an end to the absolute monopoly of the letter;with enormous advantages in terms of the speed and of the trasmission of the information.