The Botanic Garden is open

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

Da luglio ha riaperto le porte al pubblico un'oasi di verde nel cuore della città: l'Orto Botanico. La visita è gratuita, ma è obbligatoria la prenotazione compilando i seguenti moduli: Modulo online per prenotazione visite individuali e di gruppo Modulo online per prenotazione di visite per le scuole La visita si svolgerà secondo le vigenti […]

The Museum of Natural History is open

Museo di Storia Naturale via Università 12, Parma, Italia

The Museum of Natural History is open. Please book a free ticket before visiting. Il Museo di Storia Naturale è lieto di darvi il benvenuto in occasione delle sua riapertura martedì 6 ottobre. Gli orari di apertura del Museo: Sedi di Via Università 12 martedì-giovedì ore 10-13 e 15-17 (18 con ora legale) - venerdì ore 10-13. Pomeriggio […]

University of Parma Museums reopening

We look forward to welcoming you back to the University of Parma Museums. Our first priority is the safety of staff and visitors, meaning each museum will only open their doors to the public when all necessary safety measures are in place. Our museums will reopen in phases, according to government guidelines and the unique […]

The Crystal Chemistry Museum is open from 6 October

Campus - Parco Area delle Scienze via delle Scienze, Parma, Italia

Il Museo di Cristallochimica riapre al pubblico dal 6 ottobre. Orari di apertura lunedì - venerdì ore 9.00 – 18.00 Ingresso gratuito con visite guidate. Prenotazione obbligatoria. La visita individuale e di gruppo, nel rispetto delle norme anti Covid-19, va prenotata obbligatoriamente utilizzando il modulo online per visite individuali e di gruppo. La visita per le scuole va prenotata obbligatoriamente utilizzando il modulo online […]

Design! Oggetti, processi, esperienze. The opening of the exhibition is suspended

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

Design! Oggetti, processi, esperienze The opening of the exhibition is postponed to a date to be defined. Following the Dpcm of 4 November, which provides for the suspension of exhibitions and the closure of museums throughout the country to the public, the opening of Design! Objects, processes, experiences is suspended. Find out more 

Guided tours of the Gardoni Herbarium

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

Special guided tours of the Gardoni Herbarium will be conducted on Saturday 4 June. A selection of material not generally accessible to the public, recently discovered and catalogued, will be illustrated to groups of 25 people by reservation to be made using the form available on this page. Five times are available while places last: […]

From 5 June ‘Insostenibile’: nine films, five themes, a month of cinema and the environment. Initiatives also at the Botanical Gardene all’Orto Botanico.

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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 […]

European Researchers’ Night: Events in Museums

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 […]

STORIE DI FILI: : the exhibition at the CSAC until 25 September

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

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 […]

CSAC: the exhibition “Argento Nero”

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 […]

PNRR: over 870,000 euro for the Natural History Museum and CSAC

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 […]

CSAC: open until 16 April the exhibition “Goliardo Padova. La forma del tormento”.

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

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 […]

Natural History Museum: Bottego Hall reopened

Museo di Storia Naturale via Università 12, Parma, Italia

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 […]

The Violette di Maria Luigia: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, Botanical Garden

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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 […]

Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April: for ‘I Like Parma’, extraordinary opening of the Natural History Museum

Main building via Università 12, Parma, Italia

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 […]

Martedì… Orto che parla. Spring Dialogues at the Botanical Garden

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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 […]

Open Day: Natural History Museum open

Museo di Storia Naturale via Università 12, Parma, Italia

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.    

Monday 29 May: Presentation of the Botanical Garden restoration and redevelopment projects

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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 […]

The new Botanical Garden. Restoration projects visible in an exhibition.

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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 […]

Anselmo Ballester. Volti ingombranti. The exhibition at the CSAC

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

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 […]

Botanical Garden: July’s blooms

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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.

ACAMAR: fossil of Homo sapiens found in the Po

Museo di Storia Naturale via Università 12, Parma, Italia

"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 […]

14 July: Don Boarini Hall (Botanical Garden) closed to the public

Orto Botanico via Farini 90, Parma, Italia

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 […]

Biomedical Museum closed

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.  

Museums for Researchers’ Night

Campus - Parco Area delle Scienze via delle Scienze, Parma, Italia

European Researchers' Night approaches, Europe's leading science communication event promoted in the city by the University of Parma with the co-organisation and patronage of the Municipality of Parma and Imem - CNR. On Friday 29 September, starting at 4 p.m., the Athenaeum has several events planned. Most of the activities are free, but some require […]

I like Parma: events at CSAC

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

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. - […]

From 2 to 6 October, for I Like Parma, open museums and the ‘Cristalli in metamorfosi’ exhibition

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, […]

Walter Albini: the exhibition until 14 April

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

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 […]

“Visioni (im)possibili. Comunicazione, utopia, progetto in the CSAC collections”. The exhibition until 21 April

CSAC Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, Italia

It is called Visioni (im)possibili the starting exhibition of a three-year collaboration linking the Communication Studies and Archive Centre - CSAC of the University of Parmaand the Municipality of Parma - Culture Department. A project that starts with a focus on the 1960s seen "in Bauhaus terms" and then unravels over the next few years […]