A series of images and objects related to the colonial lifestyle of those people who had been sent to the colonies by the Western powers and who served the interests of their homeland in a foreign land. Often depending on their position and the places, their life was strenuous because of the climate and also the suspicion and fear of the local populations; despite all this, the moments where they could enjoy their comforts were not comparable to those they had at home. The families of the residents were all in contact with each other and everyone (among white people) could rely on mutual assistance. The families from their homeland on their way to visit or to live permanently with their family members in the colonies could enjoy means of transportation that are part of the historical memory of those trips. Here is a collection of pictures and objects belonging to “The Face of Asia” Archive that Carlo Sacco has collected in his travels in the East. Posters advertising shipping companies towards the East and Indochina, train tickets, checks and receipts from colonial hotels, baggage tags with name and pictures of the hotels where people from the English, French and American upper class was staying at; those hotels now became historical names of the highest international luxury that once welcomed famous people like Somerset Maugham, Kipling, Pierre Loti, as well as famous names associated with the exploration of wild lands like Sven Hedin and Alexandra David Neel, photographer like Germaine Krull, who in the 40s and the 50s became a shareholder of the famous Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, and also kings and queens. Many famous names associated with various activities including rich financiers, businessmen, industrialists, owners of both rubber and metal companies who unscrupulously wasted the immense riches of those territories, with the complicity of the local bourgeoisie which ensured the stability even through the use of weapons and attempts to repress the rebellions of the majority of the population. Besides the tourists, those places, those ships, those hotels recorded also the presence of adventurers and thieves, as well as spies and bandits, who enriched themselves with wars, the sale of weapons and with the opium trade promoted in Indochina and China by the East India Company and that led to the Boxer rebellion. A borderline environment which often looked forward extreme luxury and the most incredible human vices, surrounded by a cruel world, where the needs of the population could be up to the sale of human beings reduced to slavery. All this and more is the subject of the exhibition, not to mention a collection of rare French stock certificates of many companies that were active in Tonkin and in Annam (the present-day Vietnam and Laos), as well as a collection of colonial postcards and rare French and British book editions about the exploration of Asia, which are today very hard to find even in museums. The mentioned material has been patiently sought for and collected by Carlo Sacco during his journeys in Asia, where he often bought it from people who ignored its cultural and ethnographic value. Those documents have a high value today, in a globalized world, due to the difficulty of finding, collecting and preserving them, preventing them from deteriorating. A journey through the epitaphs which tell about places and events related to traveler’s vicissitudes that will not come back and that fictional writings of Salgari, Kipling and many others told us about.