From 5 June to 8 July, in Parma and its province, nine films, five themes, a month of cinema and the environment. This is the proposal of Insostenibile, a festival that fixes its gaze on a planet threatened by climatic, environmental, and energy crises, listening in search of possible alternatives. Faced with the chaotic and […]
The European Night of Female Researchers and Researchers returns on Friday 30 September.The European Night of Female Researchers and Researchers, the most important European science communication event, is promoted by the University of Parma with the co-organisation and patronage of the City of Parma and IMEM-CNR. The programme of events and this edition's novelties were […]
On Saturday 21 May 2022 in the spaces of the Abbey of Valserena, headquarters of the CSAC - Study and Archive Centre of the University of Parma, STORIE DI FILI (STORIES OF THREADS) opened to the public, the final exhibition of a research project started in 2020, curated by Francesca Zanella and Valentina Rossi, which […]
It will be opened on Saturday, October 15 at 11 a.m. the exhibition "Argento Nero. Percorsi e ricerche nel Fondo Vasco Ascolini al CSAC".The exhibition is presented by CSAC as part of the exhibition The Noise of Mourning (16th Edition) and the well-established collaboration with the "Signs of Life" Association. For Argento Nero have been […]
From subatomic particles to the Universe: it is a journey without limits of size that is proposed by the multimedia science exhibition "Vedere l'invisibile. Dall'infinitamente piccolo all'infinitamente grande" organised by the Sistema Museale dell'Università di Parma and held at the APE Parma Museo (Strada Farini, 32/A). The exhibition will be open to the public from […]
Beginning in November, and continuing until 12 January, a series of side events at the exhibition "Vedere l'invisibile" This is an extensive series of lectures, workshops and conferences designed as a satellite event of the exhibition “Vedere l’invisibile. Dall’infinitamente piccolo all’infinitamente grande”, organised by the Sistema Museale di Ateneo dell'Università di Parma and open to […]
On the occasion of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which falls on a Thursday, the Athenaeum Museums will be closed to the public on Friday, Dec. 9. Activities will resume regularly on Tuesday, December 13.
On the occasion of the UNESCO International Day for Women and Girls in Science11 February 2023, the Sistema Museale of the Parma Universityin cooperation with IMEM-CNR (Istituto Materiali per l’Elettronica e il Magnetismo - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) and APE Parma Museum is organising an event open to the public to highlight the important presence […]
From the Ministero della Cultura, thanks to the PNRR, over 870,000 euros arrive at the University of Parma for the Natural History Museum and the Communication Studies and Archive Centre - CSAC. In fact, the University has participated with two projects in the ministerial call for proposals for the removal of physical, cognitive and sensory […]
The closing date of the exhibition has been extended “Vedere l’invisibile. Dall’infinitamente piccolo all’infinitamente grande” organised by the University of Parma Museum System and held at the APE Parma Museo (Strada Farini, 32/A). The exhibition will be open until Sunday 26 February 2023. The topics covered by the exhibition are those studied in the laboratories […]
It will be open until 16 April for the exhibition 'Goliardo Padova. La forma del tormento", curated by Giulia Castagnetti and Giulia Ferrari, with which the CSAC once again reflects on the figure of an artist whose collection, preserved in the archive itself, counts almost four hundred works including canvases and drawings, posters and engravings […]
The events in the University Museums continue with Morfologie del Paesaggio – Reidratazioni performative del presente urbano, a collaborative project between Lenz Fondazione and the University of Parma to enhance the University's museum spaces and collections with the creation of contemporary performance, visual and sound environments, curated and realised by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco […]
Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica
via Università 12, Parma
The Bottego Hall of the Natural History Museum has reopened to the public after several weeks of work. This room, one of the main ones in the museum, houses the zoological collection collected by Captain Vittorio Bottego in Eritrea at the end of the 19th century. Heirlooms and ethnographic objects that belonged to the explorer […]
Back at the Botanical Garden, the event dedicated to the Violetta di Parma. Thanks to the fine weather and the dedication of the Associazione Amici dell'Orto Botancio, the Violette di Maria Luigia have blossomed in the garden beds. For the occasion, on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, the Botanical Garden will be open with […]
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April, the Museum of Natural History of the University of Parma (via Università 12) will be open for free. The initiative is part of the I Like Parma. Un Patrimonio da vivere, traditional event promoted and organised by the City of Parma in […]
The spring dialogues, the meetings around botany with experts and lecturers, organised by the association Amici dell'Orto Botanico di Parma, resume at the Botanical Garden. Ecosystems and special species, changes in flora and climate, plants and nutrition will be discussed The series of meetings, entitled "Martedì... Orto che Parla', will begin on Tuesday 4 April […]
Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica
via Università 12, Parma
On Open Day, Thursday 13, Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Tuesday 18 April, the Natural History Museum is open to the public. The Museum, located in the main building on University Street, is open from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
On the occasion of Liberation Day, the University's facilities, including the Museums, will be closed on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 April. Regular reopenings from Wednesday 26 April.
On Monday 29 May at 6.30 p.m., the Botanical Garden of the University of Parma,strada Farini 90, will host the presentation of the Garden's restoration and redevelopment projects. Projects that, thanks to public and private funding, aim to make the University's Botanical Garden a significant and renewed cultural, environmental and sustainable resource and reference point […]
Opened on Tuesday 30 May, the exhibition of the Botanical Garden restoration and enhancement projects, wide-ranging projects that aim to make the Botanical Garden of the University of Parma not only a renovated garden but a cultural, environmental, sustainable pole, resource and reference point for the city and beyond. Two interventions will affect the Botanical […]
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The exhibition will be inaugurated at the CSAC, Communication Study and Archive Centre, on Friday 23 June at 6 p.m. "Anselmo Ballester. Volti ingombranti". The exhibition is a new stage in the series of exhibitions held in the Sala delle Colonne of the Abbey of Valserena, characterised by the proposal of in-depth studies conducted by […]
Chiostro dei Paolotti
Strada Massimo D'Azeglio 85, Parma, Italia
The second stage, on Thursday 6 July at 9 p.m., of the diptych dedicated to the myth of Iphigenia and the result of a triple inspiration: Goethe's drama Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787), Gluck's opera Iphigénie en Tauride (1779) and Joseph Beuys' action Titus-Iphigenie (1969). Monica Barone, with stage installation and direction by Maria Federica Maestri […]
Scopri le nuove fioriture di luglio all'Orto Botanico: ninfee, hibiscus, oleandri, rose, ortensie... Orari di apertura: dal martedì al venerdì dalle ore 10 alle ore 18. La visita è libera. L'ingresso è gratuito.
Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica
via Università 12, Parma
"I was walking along the Po near Isola Serafini when my attention was drawn to something unusual. It was not a stone, but a fragment of bone. So I found Acamar, a cranial bone of a Palaeolithic man'. This is the account of Prof. Davide Persico, Professor of Palaeontology and Director of the Natural History […]
On Friday, 14 July, the Don Boarini Hall, at the Botanical Garden, will be closed to the public for the holding of a competition. The room, dedicated to priest Don Ezio Boarini, a parish priest from the Parma area with a passion for lepidoptera, displays, in addition to the more familiar butterflies (diurnal lepidoptera) also moths […]
During the summer, the Athenaeum Museums will observe some weeks of closure: Museum of Natural History (Via Università and Strada Farini locations): closed from 24 July until the end of restoration work. Botanical Garden: closed from 24 July until the end of restoration work. Macedonio Melloni Museum: closed from 14 to 20 August. Regular reopening […]
The 'Lorenzo Tenchini' Museum of Biomedicine, located on the first floor of the Palazzo Centrale (Via Università, 12) is temporarily closed due to removal work on the collections. We will keep you updated on the reopening from this page.
From Monday 24 July, the Museum of Natural History, both the premises on Strada Farini and Via Università, will also close for restyling. We will keep you updated on these pages. When: from Monday 24 July until the end of work
The Botanical Garden is closed for the start of restoration and enhancement work. Two interventions will affect the Botanical Garden area in the coming months: The historic garden enhancement project, financed under the PNRR project 'Programmi per la valorizzare l'identità dei luoghi: parchi e giardini storici', by the Ministry of Culture.The work, which concerns the […]
Saturday 30 September and Sunday1 October, various initiatives at the CSAC on the occasion of the "I like Parma. Un patrimonio da vivere". SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER Closing of the exhibition Andrea Branzi. Racconti di design CSAC offers a programme of meetings and viewings on further insights into the theme of the exhibition: 3 p.m. - […]
Campus - Parco Area delle Scienze
via delle Scienze, Parma, Italia
Once again this year the Sistema Museale di Ateneo, despite the closure of the Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden due to redevelopment work, will take part in the city event I Like Parma. From 2 to 6 October school groups and all interested parties will be ableto visit the museums of the Museum System, […]
Appointment of the 17th Lenz Festival Natura Dèi Teatriand part of the project MORFOLOGIE DEL PAESAGGIO _ REIDRATAZIONI DEL PRESENTE URBANOwith which Lenz regenerates the museum heritage of the University of Parma through contemporary visual and artistic language, FÒRO FÒRO is the performance of the Eritrean artist Muna Mussie, invited by Maria Federica Maestri and […]
The exhibition, which opened at the CSAC in October, can be visited until 14 April. The exhibition reconstructs Albini's work from the beginnings to the last collections made in the very early 1980s, through a selection of materials from the Walter Albini Archive Fund held at the Csac. The Csac in fact possesses one of […]
Museo Anatomico Veterinario "A. Lemoigne"
Via del Taglio, 10, Parma, Italia
The opening hours of the Anatomical Veterinary Museum 'A. Lemoigne' are being extended. The new opening hours start in November: Monday to Thursday 3 p.m. - 5.30 p.m., in November 2023, March, May, June, September, October 2024. School groups can also agree on morning times. Museum visit can be booked online: visits for individuals or […]
During the Christmas and New Year holidays, the museums will be closed from Saturday 23 December 2023 to Sunday 7 January 2024. The Sistema Museale di Ateneo wishes everyone Happy Holidays!
Palazzo del Governatore
Piazza Garibaldi, Parma, PR, Italia
From the very first days of opening, Impronte. Noi e le piante (noielepiante.it) captured the interest of a large audience of young and old, enthusiasts and neophytes, the curious and those in the know, recounting the inextricable relationship between man and nature in an unprecedented, accurate and original way. In the wake of the great […]
Palazzo del Governatore
Piazza Garibaldi, Parma, PR, Italia
In Parma, in the splendid Palazzo del Governatore, Saturday 13 January 2024 opens to the public Impronte. Noi e le piante , unique exhibition that traces in more than 200 figurative objects (historical herbals, botanical illustrations, nature prints and xylographs, as well as modern photographs and high-tech images) the relationship between humanity and nature, botany […]
Palazzo del Governatore
Piazza Garibaldi, Parma, PR, Italia
Over 21,000 people visited 'Impronte - Noi e le Piante', the exhibition organised by the University of Parma's Sistema Museale di Ateneo between 13 January and 1 April at the Palazzo del Governatore. A decidedly positive result, which rewards the choice of integrating modern and ancient materials, local collections and 'pieces' from other institutions, creating […]
Like the entire University of Parma, the Museums will also be closed on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 April. The museums will reopen regularly, observing the usual opening hours for the public, from Monday 29 April.
In December 2023, Interno Verde launched the second edition of Interno Verde Design, an illustration competition aimed at students, recent graduates and young professionals under 35, who were called upon to interpret the theme: Botanica Fantastica. Ten illustrations to explore the unexpressed potential of the plant kingdom, including flowers and imaginary plants. On display are […]
On the occasion of the 'International Museum Day 2024' proposed by ICOM, following the theme 'Museums for Education and Research', CSAC proposes an afternoon of workshops and insights for all ages. This year's theme focuses on the fundamental role of cultural institutions in promoting and ensuring an increasingly inclusive, sustainable and informed educational experience, supporting […]
Opened in the Sala delle Colonne of CSAC the photographic exhibition “Planimetria Naturali: Ghirri, Giacomelli, Guerzoni, Archivio”, curated by Paolo Barbaro and Margherita Zazzero. Starting from the knot between nature and artifice, controlled figurative action and the form of the uncontrollable or the unconscious, a small sample of works from the CSAC archives is presented […]
The exhibition "UGO STERPINI - l'écart absolu" It was inaugurated on Saturday 15 June at the CSAC of the University of Parma, in the Sala delle Colonne of the Valserena Abbey. The exhibition explores the profound connection between the artist and the Surrealist movement, on the occasion of the centenary of the movement's foundation: Sterpini's interest […]
The museums of the University Museum System will observe a few weeks of closure during the traditional summer holidays. Here is the calendar: Veterinary Anatomical Museum: 22 July to 23 August. Regular reopening on 26 August. Museum of Mathematics and Informatics: 29 July to 30 August. Regular reopening on 2 September. Museum of Palaeontology:1 to […]
The exhibition Archivio paesaggio. L’Italia del secondo Novecento nelle collezioni CSAC is an itinerary around the theme of the landscape, its codifications and transcriptions, conducted on the archival traces of the transformations that, starting after World War II and over the course of forty years, have crossed Italy reconfiguring spaces and territories, aspirations and tensions, […]
Community Specific Archive collects a series of photographs by Paola Di Bello and a video-installation by Valerio Rocco Orlando born from the artists' confrontation with the CSAC archive and with the students of the Three-year BA Program in Communication and Contemporary Media for the Creative Industries at the University of Parma The Community Specific Archive […]
Friday 27 September sees the return to Parma of the European Researchers' Night, the most important European scientific communication event promoted in the city by the University of Parma with the co-organisation and patronage of the City of Parma and Imem - CNR. The activities are almost all free to access, but some require booking: […]
The Cleonice Capece exhibition is open, the first in a new series dedicated to the presentation of recent CSAC acquisitions. The artist's fund was in fact donated by Cleonice Capece herself in 2024. Through a selection of materials including drawings, photographs, press reviews and fabric samples, the exhibition will highlight Capece's work, which has remained […]
Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica
via Università 12, Parma
Italy's first Museum of Natural History is being set up at the University of Parma: MUST. A museum that is accessible to all, with special attention to those with sensory and mobility difficulties, and which aims to be a great natural history tale along the timeline. Work is ongoing and the opening is scheduled for […]
Campus - Parco Area delle Scienze
via delle Scienze, Parma, Italia
Over the past few years, our university has made efforts to upgrade its green spaces, improve their quality and integrate them more effectively into normal teaching, research and third mission activities. Some of these actions are beginning to become visible, such as the new styles of lawn care at the Science and Technology Campus. Of […]
Palazzo Pigorini
Strada della Repubblica 29/A, Parma
It is a sort of ‘dissertation through images’ on the 1970s, the second exhibition of the triptych envisaged by the collaboration betweeCSAC - Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione of the Parma Univertity and the Municipality of Parma - Assessorato alla Cultura. After the exhibition "Visioni (im)possibili" of 2024, which focused on the 1960s seen […]
Museo Anatomico Veterinario "A. Lemoigne"
Via del Taglio, 10, Parma, Italia
From Thursday 5 June at 21. 00, in replication until 13 June, the spaces of the Veterinary Anatomy Collection of the University of Parma (via del Taglio 8) will host the debut of ILIADE#1 CAVALLI, the new site-specific performative composition by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto, the first chapter of the anatomical/dramaturgical work on […]
During the summer break, the Collections will observe a few days of closure: Crystallochemistry Collection: from 1 to 29 August. Regular reopening from 2 September. Mineralogy Collection: from 4 to 25 August. Regular reopening from 26 August. Palaeontology Collection: from 1 to 31 August. Regular reopening from 2 September. L. Tenchini Biomedicine Collection: closed due […]
Collezione Anatomico Veterinaria "A. Lemoigne"
Via del Taglio, 10, 43126 Parma, Italy
The ‘A. Lemoigne’ Veterinary Anatomical Collection extends its opening hours. In the month of September, the Collection will be open from Monday to Thursday from 3 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Information and reservations.
Chiostro dei Paolotti
Strada Massimo D'Azeglio 85, Parma, Italia
The University of Parma and the CSAC (Centre for Studies and Archives of Communication) pay tribute to Giorgio Armani a few days after his passing. From 22 September to 24 October, a selection of reproductions from the more than 8,000 drawings, sketches, and other material in the Giorgio Armani Collection, personally donated by the designer […]
Friday, 26 September marks the return of European Researchers' Night. The University Museum System Collections are also participating with numerous initiatives. Mathematics and Computer Science Collection: Visit to the ‘Interactive Exhibition on the History of Personal Computers’ for young people aged 15 to 19, adults Activity by reservation only Visit to the exhibition ‘Pythagoras and […]
