The Alpine Troop Uniform Museum. Where is it? In the Fortress of Exilles. This a problem inside a problem. This is a difficult topic for an exhibition in a place that is extraordinary but certainly more uncomfortable than a city museum. What can we do so that the visitors do not become only fortress lizards? Here is an idea. We should give the museum a space dedicated to the memories and feelings of the objects that are presented. Meanwhile, we should avoid the mistake of falling into the rhetoric typical of a beautiful Christmas crib. Thus the work should be an artistic installation able to tell a story through fragments and through associations that go well beyond the physical qualities of the objects exhibited – in our case, the uniforms. So, the bodies become stone soldiers – pieces of the very stones of the fortress. The soldiers line up and go down the first part of the cannon chambers, yet remain immobile. Here the visitors meet them for the first time. The soldiers are framed by structures that are purposely rudimentary. The objects seem as if they have been made by the soldiers’ own hands in the hardy and Spartan manner of their camps. There are rough tools, sewn-together canvasses, simple constructions, pieces of untreated wood, etc. Now there is a piece of paper that reproduces a fragment of a letter that a soldier had written. This introduces the visitors to the second great space of the cannon chamber. This is an area of memories and feelings where we dare to tell the story of who the soldiers were who wore the uniforms we have just seen, and what were thinking about. Here the sculptures, settings, and images projected on backdrops create enormous paintings that allow the visitors to get intimately close to the thoughts and hopes of those young men – the Fortress of Exilles soldiers. Meanwhile, from the walls, from those thick walls, emerge the memories of sounds, of echoes, and of distant noises – other fragments.