Sistema Museale di Ateneo

Thursday 21 and Friday 22 March: new events of the 'Impronte' exhibition
2024-03-22 18:00 (Europe/Rome) | Palazzo del Governatore, Piazza Garibaldi, Parma, PR, 43121, 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 interest, the exhibition – realised by the University of Parma in collaboration with the Municipality of Parma and with the support of the Cariparma Foundation, the Chiesi Group and the Davines Group – flanks didactic workshops and guided tours with a further calendar of special collateral and widespread initiatives.
The first events will take place during I Like Parma, on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 March. Preceded by a guided tour with the curator of the exhibition’s scientific project, Renato Bruni (sold-out, but bookable at this linkin case of cancellation of participants already on the list), the extraordinary time extension on Saturday will allow Impronte to be visited after the usual time, until 10 p.m. (with last entry 30 minutes earlier), while on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. it will be possible to attend the fascinating meeting Visiting an exhibition from a seated position. Renato Bruni recounts the genesis of Impronte, dedicated to botanical literature and a precious opportunity to immerse oneself in and explore the themes of the exhibition, between scientific knowledge and humanistic sensitivity.
The same ingredients returning Friday 8 at 6 p.m. with the presentation of the book “Il dubbio e il desiderio” (Electa, 2023) by Silvia Bencivelli, which will retrace the main stages of the lively biography of Eva Mameli Calvino, a botanist who lived between 1886 and 1978 and mother of Italo, destined to become one of the protagonists of 20th century literature. In the Auditorium Mattioli of the Palazzo del Governatore, the author, journalist and populariser of science will talk to Renato Bruni about the figure of a woman capable of distinguishing herself in a field, that of science, which at the time was the prerogative of the male universe.
The children’s perspective will then be added to the conventional one with the event How plants see us, and vice versa. On Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., twenty students from the ‘Tourism’ course at ITC Bodoni in Parma will take on the special role of botanical guides, telling stories and insights related to the materials on show in the rooms of Palazzo del Governatore.
Turning to the big screen, Thursday 21 at Cinema D’Azeglio at 6 p.m. is the screening of the documentary The Seed of the Future, created to bring attention to the changes that the climate crisis is triggering in Alpine forests. One of the most passionate connoisseurs of this fragile and delicate ecosystem is the film’s protagonist, scientist and forest management expert Giorgio Vacchiano, who has returned to the Valle d’Aosta forests of his childhood in search of the keys to understanding the profound changes taking place there. together with Renato Bruni, will be
he will outline considerations and possible solutions needed to safeguard our invaluable forest and woodland heritage.
Closing the overview, on Friday 22, is a second presentation, again in the Auditorium Mattioli. This time, Stefano Mazzotti, director of the Natural History Museum of Ferrara, will be speaking, joined by Renato Bruni and Davide Persico, director of the Natural History Museum of the University of Parma. With him, the public will be able to get to know the Marvelous Creatures (from the title of his book, il Mulino, 2024) that populate our planet, ideally travelling to extraordinary places of unimaginable beauty, from Papua New Guinea to Borneo, from the Himalayas to the Mekong, from Sri Lanka to Madagascar, and on to the mountains of Tanzania, gaining an ever greater awareness of the importance of protecting and preserving such wealth and diversity.
The programm Impronte Off – conceived by Interno Verde and promoted by the association ‘Parma, io ci sto!’, one of the highlights of which will be the proclamation of the winner of competition dedicated to Fantastic Botany, Friday 1 March from 6 p.m. at Palazzo del Governatore – the Impronte programme expands with increasingly engaging and multidisciplinary initiatives. A way to further intensify the already solid dialogue between Parma and its University, also underlined by the launch of the recovery of the Botanical Garden (in which the University is flanked by institutions and private companies in the area such as the Ministry of University and Research, the Ministry of Culture, the Cariparma Foundation, the Chiesi Group and ‘Parma, io ci sto!’), one of the city and national fulcrums on which to focus scientific communication, education and shared research.
All meetings, with the exception of the guided tour, are free admission subject to availability. For information on special events, please contact the following e-mail addresses: sistema.museale@unipr.it | info.cultura@comune.parma
Impronte. Noi e le piante continues until Monday 1 April, and can be visited free of charge from Wednesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., including public holidays. It is realised by the University of Parma in collaboration with the Municipality of Parma, the support of the Cariparma Foundation, the Chiesi Group and the Davines Group, and with the patronage and collaboration of the University of Padua, Le Scienze and National Geographic.
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Christmas holidays: Museums closed from 23 December
2023-12-23 00:00 - 2024-01-07 22:00
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!

Veterinary Museum: new opening times
2023-11-06 08:00 - 2023-11-30 17:00 | Museo Anatomico Veterinario “A. Lemoigne”, Via del Taglio, 10, Parma, 43126, 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 groups, visits for schools

Lenz: "FÒRO FÒRO" and "DECOLONIZZARE IL MUSEO", performance and seminar with Muna Mussie
2023-10-13
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 Francesco Pititto – a work inspired by the hank game analysed by Donna Haraway, who recognises in the ‘figures of thread’ an analogy with processes of thought and creation, pedagogical practices and cosmological performances. Creating thread figures means passing and receiving, choosing threads or letting them go, making and unmaking, tracing and following a plot in the dark, to inscribe other stories.
FÒRO FÒROis the public event that follows the practices acted out in Verso l’immagine, a workshop that puts blind and sighted people in dialogue through Braille and Embroidery, two different languages but united by the imprinting of a surface, revealing a tactile image.
For Lenz, the artist will expose himself in the making and speaking of words, alluding to the interchange between fòro, an ancient place linked to the gathering of the community, trade, politics and justice, and fóro, which refers to a hole to enter and exit through.
After a period of study at the Sala Bottego of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Parma, the artist will conduct his residency at Lenz Teatro (via Pasubio 3/e Parma), where both the performance, at 7 p.m. the 12 and 13 October, both the research seminar DECOLONIZZARE IL MUSEO with free participation), at 4.30 p.m. on 13 October, during which Muna Mussie will dialogue with scholar Sofia Bacchini of the Centro Studi Movimenti di Parma and L’Orientale University of Naples and with the Director of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Parma Davide Persico n how to reconstruct a curation of goods taken from non-Western subjectivities, in an attempt to re-appropriate the Eritrean Bottego zoological collection through a decolonial analysis.
Muna Mussie (Eritrea 1978) began her artistic career in 1998, training and working as an actress and performer with Teatrino Clandestino and Teatro Valdoca. From 2001 to 2005, he was a founding member of the research collective Open.
FÒRO FÒRO is the eighth action of the three-year project 22_24 BESTIARIO | Femminile Animale.
Tickets
12 euro full ticket
8 euro reduced ticket (under 30, students, AUSL employees, Carta DOC)
6 euro students, students and teachers University of Parma
Information and booking
Lenz Teatro
Via Pasubio 3/e, Parma, tel. 0521 270141
Mob + Whatsspp 335 6096220
Mail info@lenzfondazione.it

From 2 to 6 October, for I Like Parma, open museums and the 'Cristalli in metamorfosi' exhibition
2023-10-02 08:00 - 2023-10-07 17:00 | Campus – Parco Area delle Scienze, via delle Scienze, Parma, 43125, 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, accompanied by expert guides, who will lead them to discover the rich collections owned by the University of Parma.
In addition to the museums, visitors will be able to visit the ‘Cristalli in metamorfosi’ exhibition at the Park Area of the Sciences, set up in exhibition halls F and G in Plesso 25 (Aule delle Scienze).
Visitors can access the exhibition from Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., while access to the museums is subject to prior booking at sistema.museale@unipr.it.

I like Parma: events at CSAC
2023-09-30 08:00 - 2023-10-01 17:00 | CSAC, Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, 43022, 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. – Educational workshop for families (children 6-11 years old accompanied by an adult) “Personaggio-oggetto-plastico: narriamo il design”.
4 p.m. – Guided tour of Andrea Branzi’s exhibition curated by Francesca Zanella, with Francesca Picchi.
5.30 p.m – Andrea Branzi. Mostra in forma di prosa, video, Triennale di Milano production, July 2022 (duration 36 minutes).
6 p.m. – Andrea Branzi, La musica contemporanea e il suo spazio. Meeting with Martino Traversa and Nicoletta Morozzi, moderated by Francesca Zanella.
More information.
SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER
Within the walls of the Abbey of Valserena, a former Cistercian abbey now home to the Communication Studies and Archives Centre, lie hundreds of years of history and change. Through a series of fun activities aimed at families, we can discover all the secrets of the history of this historic monument.
4 p.m. – Visit and educational workshop for families (children 6-11 years old accompanied by an adult) “Journey through time: discovering Valserena Abbey”.
On both days, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., it will be possible to visit the two exhibitions ‘Andrea Branzi. Tales of Design” and “Anselmo Ballester. Volti ingombranti” (exceptionally extended until 1 October 2023!) with a reduced ticket price (€5). All events are included in the ticket price.
Info and reservations:
Tel: 0521903649
email: servizimuseali@csacparma.it

Museums for Researchers' Night
2023-09-29 | Campus – Parco Area delle Scienze, via delle Scienze, Parma, 43125, 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 reservations:will be possible to book exclusively online from 15 to 26 September through the official event website.
The University Museums also participate with various initiatives:
Cristalli alla ribalta
prof.ssa Alessia Bacchi
A fascinating journey into the world of crystals. From their genealogy at the centre of the earth to the art of chocolate ice cream. Curious? Between experiments and visits, our doors are open to visitors of all ages.
Plesso di Chimica – Pad. 01 –Museum of Crystal Chemistry (first floor corridor) – Campus Scienze e Tecnologie
Visiting the exhibition “Pitagora e il suo Teorema”
prof. Federico Bergenti
personal and interactive tours suitable for both “adult children” and younger children. We propose a classification that never wanes: “Pitagora e il Suo Teorema”. Come and find out.
Plesso di Matematica – Pad. 21 – Second floor, Sala mostre – Campus Scienze e Tecnologie
Visit to the ‘Interactive Exhibition on the History of the Personal Computer’.
prof. Federico Bergenti
Do you know the history of the personal computer? Come to the interactive exhibition to retrace the dawn of the digital age and discover this fascinating journey together.
Plesso di Matematica – Pad. 21 – First floor, Sala mostre – Campus Scienze e Tecnologie
GEOLIFE: Earth sciences in everyday life
prof.ssa Luciana Mantovani, Alessandra Montanini and Teresa Trua
Journey to the centre of the earth to go through our daily actions and understand what is and is not good for us. From age 6 onwards, the aim of our workshop is to walk together through the interactions that take place on our planet and distinguish the beneficial from the harmful.
Plesso Scienze della Terra – Pad. 07 – Central corridor – Campus Scienze e Tecnologie
Nature in the Archive: Discovering Biodiversity and Ecosystems Inside and Outside the CSAC Archive
dott.ssa Margherita Zazzero
Biodiversity and nature in the spaces and collections of the CSAC, analysed and recounted through paths of exploration and discovery of the environment around the abbey and of nature as recounted in the collections of works of art and photographs preserved in the archives.
Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) – Abbazia di Valserena, Via Viazza di Paradigna, 1

The goodness of the divine swine
prof. Ferdinando Gazza, Luisa Ragionieri, Francesca Ravanetti, Antonio Cacchioli, Maddalena Botti, Federico Righi
A cult of our culinary tradition starting from the historical origins of the domestic pig, through its breeding. The fascinating world of high-quality charcuterie products typical of our region.
Veterinary Anatomical Museum – Sala inferiore – Aula A – via del Taglio, 10

Biomedical Museum closed
2023-07-18 08:00 - 2023-09-01 17:00
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.

Summer 2023: Museum closures
2023-07-17 08:00 - 2023-09-04 23:00
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 from Tuesday 22 August.
Museum of Palaeontology: closed from 1 to 31 August. Regular reopening on Friday 1 September.
Mineralogy Museum: closed from 14 to 27 August. Regular reopening on Monday 28 August.
Veterinary Anatomical Museum A. Lamoigne: closed from 28 July to 1 September. Regular reopening on Monday 4 September.
Museum of Mathematics and Informatics: closed from 31 July to 27 August. Regular reopening on Tuesday 29 August.
Museum of Crystal Chemistry: closed from 5 August to 3 September. Regular reopening on Tuesday 5 September.
Biomedicine Museum: closed for relocation.
Permanent Exhibition “Microcosmo con vista”: closed for relocation.
Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione – CSAC: closed from 7 to 24 August. Regular reopening on Friday 25 August.

14 July: Don Boarini Hall (Botanical Garden) closed to the public
2023-07-14 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, 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 (nocturnal lepidoptera), including the well-known ‘Death’s Head Sphinx’, the moth made famous in the film ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, and some species of beetles.

ACAMAR: fossil of Homo sapiens found in the Po
2023-07-10 08:00 - 2023-09-30 17:00 | Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica, via Università 12, Parma, 43121
“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 Museum. A chance discovery, thanks to a period of water crisis in the Po, which gives us new perspectives on our history.
Faced with the fossil, the professor had no doubts. It was immediately clear that this was an important find.
“The bone immediately caught my attention and I immediately confirmed that it was a very ancient find”. This is how Prof. Persico recalls his experience, which dates back to last September.
The discovery took place in the Isola Serafini area (Monticelli d’Ongina)
The fossil is now at the Museum of Natural History, which will ensure its preservation and coordinate the multidisciplinary study.
The research project, called ‘ACAMAR‘, will investigate the palaeoanthropology, palaeogenetics and geochemistry of the precious artefact. It will take place in the coming months through a collaboration between the Superintendency, the University of Parma, the University of Milan, the University of Bologna and the Paleoanthropological Museum of the Po in San Daniele Po
Acamar, the name chosen for the find, comes from the name of the star that is part of the constellation Eridanus.

Botanical Garden: July's blooms
2023-07-10 08:00 - 2023-07-31 17:00 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, 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.

Iphigenia in Tauride
2023-07-06 | 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 and imagoturgy by Francesco Pititto , brings herself and her life onto the stage through a contemporary ritual that requires dance beyond words, beyond gesture, in order to be free to rewrite her own history and to transform the world through the emergence of a language from the depths.
The event, entitled, Iphigenia in Tauride, will take place in the Chiostro dei Paolotti.
Show suitable for all, extra charge
Tickets:
€ 12 full price
€ 8 reduced (under 30, students, AUSL employees, Carta DOC)
€ 6 reduced students and UNIPR employees
When: Thursday 6 July – 9 pm
Where: Chiostro dei Paolotti – Strada D’Azeglio, 85 – Parma

Anselmo Ballester. Volti ingombranti. The exhibition at the CSAC
2023-06-23 - 2023-09-17 | CSAC, Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, 43022, 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 the Centre’s conservators and collaborators on specific themes, the result of in-depth research in the archives and the particular attention paid to environmental and financial sustainability, made possible thanks to the various cultural, design and technical skills present at the CSAC.

The exhibition will be open to the public until 17 September 2023.

Where: Sala delle Colonne – CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione,
Abbey of Valserena
Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1 – Parma
When: inaugurazione venerdì 23 giugno – ore 18.00W
Exhibition hours: Friday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Information and reservations: csac@unipr.it; servizimuseali@csacunipr.it; tel. +39 0521 903649

Download the new Museums app!
2023-06-23 - 2023-09-30
Now available on the stores, MuseiUnipr, the new app of the University of Parma Museums!
Search for Unipr Museums and download the app in both Apple and Google Play versions….and then visit us!

June: Blooms at the Botanical Garden
2023-06-13 08:00 - 17:00 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, Italia

Friday 2 June: museums are closed
2023-06-02
On Friday 2 June, on the occasion of Republic Day, the University’s facilities, including the museums, are closed.

The new Botanical Garden. Restoration projects visible in an exhibition.
2023-05-30 00:00 - 2023-07-31 00:00 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, 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 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 landscaping of the garden, is aimed at respecting biodiversity while minimising water and energy management costs. The leitmotif of the intervention is consistency: the vegetation, naturalistic and environmental needs of the plants prevail over other aspects and the entire garden must be able to act as a ‘botanical embassy’ of the area, as a platform for dialogue to reinforce education in a non-anthropocentric observation of the world.
The project takes into utmost consideration the ecological and naturalistic requirements of the site, minimising soil consumption and reducing the impact on the root systems in the garden. The work includes the resurfacing of paths, the construction of an irrigation system, the creation of new flower beds with low water requirements, the landscaping of rockeries and wetlands, and the building of a new greenhouse to display the succulent collection, which cannot be visited today.
The project is by A+C_Architettura e Città Studio Associato
The project to restore the historic greenhouses and the Botany School, which benefits from a fundamental impulse by ‘Parma, io ci sto!‘, is co-financed by the University of Parma, the Ministry of University and Research, the Cariparma Foundation and the Chiesi Group.
Thanks to sponsors, the Ferdinandee Greenhouses (dating back to the end of the 18th century) and the 19th-century Botany School will be restored and reinstated. The latter building will house the historical herbarium collections, the historical library and a small botanical museum. The Bourbon greenhouses will be restored to their original structures, with the elimination of posthumous structures and a return to the original design of the Petitot School. The new installations will ensure maximum energy savings. The spaces will not only house plants, but will be multifunctional buildings that can also be used for exhibitions and events. Next to the Serre Ferdinandee, new public services, cafeteria, meeting place, bookshop will be opened.
The project is by Studio Canali Associati
The projects were presented on Monday 29 May in the historical headquarters in Via Farini in the presence of the Rettore, Paolo Andrei, of Mayor Michele Guerra, the Scientific Director of the Botanical Garden Renato Bruni,of the President of Fondazione Cariparma Franco Magnani, of the President of “Parma, io ci sto!” Alessandro Chiesi and Giovanna Usvardi, Global Communication & External Relations Head del Gruppo Chiesi, and of course the designers Guido Canali and Paola Cavallini, representing Studio Canali Associati and A+C_Architettura e Città Studio Associato
Where: Botanical Garden greenhouses, Strada Farini, 90
When: from Tuesday 30 May to the end of July

Monday 29 May: Presentation of the Botanical Garden restoration and redevelopment projects
2023-05-29 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, 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 for the city and beyond.
Together with the University there will be the partners supporting it in this important initiative and of course the designers.
The Rector Paolo Andrei, the Mayor Michele Guerra, the Scientific Director of the Botanical Garden Renato Bruni, the President of the Cariparma Foundation Franco Magnani, the President of “Parma, io ci sto!”Alessandro Chiesi and Giovanna Usvardi, Global Communication & External Relations Head of the Chiesi Group, will take the floor.
The presentation is by invitation only, closed to the public.

Botanical Garden: Blooms
2023-05-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, Italia

25 April: museums closed
2023-04-25
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.

Open Day: Natural History Museum open
2023-04-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica, via Università 12, Parma, 43121
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.

Martedì... Orto che parla. Spring Dialogues at the Botanical Garden
2023-05-09 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, 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 at 5.30 p.m.
All meetings take place at the Botanical Garden in Strada Farini, 90.
Maximum capacity: 40 seats
Reservations are recommended by writing to amiciortobotanico@gmail.com
The Programme:
Tuesday 4 April: ‘Painted violets‘ by art historian Eles Iotti:
Tuesday 11 April: “Changes in the flora of the Parma area from Passerini to the present day” by Michele Adorni and Luigi Villani, experts in environmental botany
Tuesday 18 April: “Clear, fresh and sweet plants. Urban vegetation and heat islands“edited by Barbara Gherri and Renato Bruni, University of Parma. n collaboration with KilometroVerdeParma
Tuesday 2 May: “Phytohalimurgy. Folk tradition, history and current perspectives between fashion and knowledge” a cura di Villiam Morelli, docente di fitoalimurgia presso ALMA, Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana di Colorno
Tuesday 9 May: “Plant Ecology in the Alpine Environment” by Marcello Tomaselli, former Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany, University of Parma
Download the playbill

Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April: for 'I Like Parma', extraordinary opening of the Natural History Museum
2023-04-01 10:00 - 2023-04-02 18:00 | Main building, via Università 12, Parma, 43121, 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 collaboration with local museums and cultural venues to discover the city’s treasures and beauties.
When: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Where: via Università, 12 – Parma
Free entry

The Violette di Maria Luigia: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, Botanical Garden
2023-03-25 10:00 - 2023-03-26 18:00 | Orto Botanico, via Farini 90, Parma, 43121, 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 a rich programme of guided tours, microscope observations and lectures.
During the event, it will be possible to visit the Natural History Museum, located within the Botanical Garden.
It will also be possible to buy flowers and plants provided by the Friends of the Botanical Garden of Parma.
The event is organised in collaboration with the Amici dell’Orto Botanico di Parma
The programme:
Saturday 25 March
11 a.m. and 2 p.m. – Discovering Spring in the Botanical Garden. Guided tours.
3 p.m. and 5 p.m. – Plant microcosm. Microscopic observations of flowers, seeds and surroundings.
4 pm – Investigation of a violet: Dr Anna Torelli presents the evolution and genetics of a unique flower.
Sunday 26 March
11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. – Discovering Spring in the Botanical Garden. Guided tours.
Where: Botanical Garden, Strada Farini, 90 – Parma
When: Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March – 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Free admission.
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Natural History Museum: Bottego Hall reopened
2023-03-24 | Museo di Storiografia Naturalistica, via Università 12, Parma, 43121
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 are also on display.
The Bottego Hall is located on the main floor of the University’s main building, Via Università, 12.
Admission is free

Lenz for the University Museums: new performance on Tuesday 14 March
2023-03-16 00:00
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 Pititto..
From 14 to 17 March, at the Museum of Palaeontology, it will be the turn of the video installation from NUMERI –second chapter of the SACRE SCRITTURE project performed by poet and actor Marcello Sambati. a powerful imagoturgy realised on the shores of the Po in dry weather during the torrid summer months, which stands as an emblem of a reflection/action on the human being at the time of his greatest crisis and his lowest prospects for survival.
The enhancement of the landscape and museum heritage can be realised through experiences with a strong innovative character, in a fruitful synergy capable of leveraging the artistic potential naturally inherent in spaces and places. The assets that make up the collections of the Museums of the University of Parma, true treasures in the University buildings, tell the story of knowledge, of the approach to the various disciplines, of discoveries, of methods of investigation, and represent a very important legacy from the point of view of both the historical and the scientific good. This is what the project by Lenz and the University of Parma is based on.
After numerous experiences of scenic and performative reinterpretation in various monumental complexes (from the Reggia di Colorno to the Pilotta, from the Parma Archaeological Museum to the Rocca di San Secondo and many other spaces, including the Abbazia di Valserena, seat of the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione – CSAC of the University of Parma), with Morfologie del Paesaggio – Reidratazioni performative del presente urbano Lenz Fondazione continues to generate an aesthetic reactivation of historical heritage through contemporary artistic signs.
In the aesthetic and ethical vision of Maria Federica Maestriand Francesco Pititto, artistic rehydration is capable of acting as a process of ‘restoration’ of buildings and the works they contain. In recounting the history of knowledge and research, these assets represent an enormous cultural and scientific heritage available to the university and local community, a priceless multidimensional encyclopaedia to be known, used and discovered: also through new forms of immersive use, which transfigure the place with the imaginative power of art.
After a preview represented by the performance by and with Monica Barone UMANO, DISUMANO, POSTUMANO, produced by Lenz Fondazione at the University’s Museum of Natural History in September 2022, in 2023 the project enters the heart of a composite programme (from live performances to video installations, from seminars to meetings with students, from artistic residencies to streamed works) and branched out, as it will take place in different locations: from the University’s main campus (with the Bottego Museum and the Philosophers’ Hall) to the Science and Technology Campus, with the Palaeontology Museum, and the Cloisters of the Paolotti University Library.
on 21 March, International Day of Persons with Down Syndrome, at 9 p.m. in the Aula dei Filosofi of the University of Parma’s headquarters, will stage HAMLET SOLO, a contemporary performative reworking of theAmleto by Shakespeare, starring Barbara Voghera, a sensitive actress with Down’s syndrome, who has been a valuable identifying presence in the historic Lenz ensemble for over twenty years.
ROOMS/Introduction meetings to the scheduled works are scheduled for 1 March at 5 p.m. and 14 March at 4 p.m. at the Museum of Palaeontology on the Science and Technology Campus, and 20 March at 5 p.m. in the Philosophers’ Hall at the University’s main campus.
On 5 and 6 July at 9 p.m. at the Chiostro dei Paolotti, Monica Barone, a dancer with a great performative sensitivity matured in her relationship with her own physical specificity, will perform IPHIGENIA IN TAURIDE,Lenz’s work the result of a triple inspiration: Goethe’s dramaIphigenie auf Tauris (1787), the work of GluckIphigénie en Tauride (1779) and the historic action of Joseph Beuys Titus-Iphigenie (1969).
In autumn, the project will reach its final stage with the fourth action of the project BESTIARIO_FEMMINILE ANIMALE, Natura Dèi Teatri 02, hinged on the creation of artistic affinity or ‘kinship’ relationships with 12 female artists over the three-year period 22-24. In the fourth action the artist Muna Mussie will be engaged in a residency on dialogue between blind and sighted people through the Braille writing and reading method and Embroidery, culminating in a performance on 12 and 13 October at 6 p.m. in the Sala Bottego of the Natural History Museum.
Finally, the project extends to other prominent venues of the urban present, such as the WOPA- Workout Pasubio and the Galleria San Ludovico, where Lenz will realise performances, meetings and workshops throughout 2023.
The enhancement of the landscape and monumental heritage of the area in which it has been operating since 1985 is one of the founding pillars of Lenz Fondazione’s three-year macro-project 2022 → 2024, entitled Nuove Geosofie e nuovi Bestiari nel Teatro di Lenz.
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CALENDARIO
[ LA CREAZIONE_ORATORIO ]
Progetto Sacre Scritture
Visual installation + performance
Creation by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto
Performers | Valentina Barbarini and Victoria Vasquez Jurado (soprano)
Music | Andrea Azzali, Franz Joseph Haydn
Museo di Paleontologia_Campus Scienze e Tecnologie Università di Parma
Wednesday 1 March 5 p.m. RooM| Meeting with students
Wednesday 1 March at 18.00LA CREAZIONE_ORATORIO performance
Thursday 2 March at 18.00 LA CREAZIONE_ORATORIO performance
FREE ADMISSION
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[ NUMERI ]
Project Sacre Scritture
Video installation
Creation by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto
Music | Andrea Azzali
Voice over | Marcello Sambati
Museo di Paleontologia_Campus Scienze e Tecnologie Università di Parma
Tuesday 14 March at 16.00 RooM | Meeting with students
14-15-16-17 March 4-7 p.m. NUMERI video installation
FREE ADMISSION
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[ HAMLET SOLO ]
Visual installation + performance
Creation by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto
Music | Andrea Azzali
performer | Barbara Voghera
Aula dei Filosofi_Università di Parma
Monday 20 March at 17.00 RooM |Meeting with students
Tuesday 21 March 21.00HAMLET SOLO performance
TICKET: € 8 REDUCED STUDENTS | € 12 FULL
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[ IPHIGENIA IN TAURIDE ]
Video installation and performance
Creation by Maria Federica Maestri and Francesco Pititto
Performer | Monica Barone
Music | Christoph Willibald Gluck
Chiostro dei Paolotti
Wednesday 5 July at 21.00
Thursday 6 July at 21.00
TICKET: € 8 REDUCED STUDENTS | € 12 FULL
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[ FÒRO FÒRO ]
Workshop + residenza + performance
Project NDT.02_Parentele
Parentela 4_Muna Mussie
Sala Bottego del Museo di Storia Naturale_Università di Parma
Thursday 12 October at 18.00
Friday 13 October at 18.00
FREE ADMISSION
The complete calendar.
For information and reservations: Lenz Teatro, Via Pasubio 3/e, Parma, tel. 0521 270141, mob. e WhatsApp 335 6096220 – mail info@lenzfondazione.it – www.lenzfondazione.it

CSAC: open until 16 April the exhibition "Goliardo Padova. La forma del tormento".
2023-03-04 00:00 - 2023-04-16 23:59 | CSAC, Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, PARMA, 43022, 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 donated by his heirs.
With this exhibition, the CSAC opens a series of exhibitions in the Sala delle Colonne, characterised by common elements despite the diversity of themes, topics, authors and genres to which each is dedicated. All exhibitions generated by archival surveys conducted by staff working in the Centre combine the functions of archival preservation and management with those of heritage enhancement and knowledge dissemination. Mostre originali, per i temi selezionati, oppure per il taglio critico dato, o per i materiali inediti scelti, e mostre characterised by low environmental and financial impact designThe layout design, graphics and actual realisation are also entirely conducted by the in-house technical staff, with particular attention to the reuse of materials, furniture, supports and structures.
Thus, an idea of cultural production that values design and implementation skills, continuity between intellectual elaboration and operational and managerial implementation, characteristics that have always been the heritage of the CSAC and the University.
As far back as 1985, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle published an article entitled Goliardo Padova and European Expressionism, outlining what is now intended to be the key that has guided the selection of a nucleus of works within the artist’s variegated corpus preserved at the CSAC.
Goliardo Padova (Casalmaggiore, CR, 1909 – Parma 1979), after an education at the Art Institute in Parma and the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, became involved in the most up-to-date Milanese cultural circles and became assistant professor to Guido Marussing at the Scuola Superiore per gli Artefici.
He experimented with and mastered a variety of artistic languages, including decorative and architectural composition and advertising graphics. His field of choice, however, is easel painting, in which the depiction of his homeland finds greater space.
After an initial experience in close contact with the Novecento Group and the Milanese Chiaristi, he arrived at a highly personal interpretation of reality.
Goliardo Padova’s canvases have often been approached by critics, due to an affinity of subjects treated, to the group of so-called ‘last naturalists’ from the Po Valley, as defined by Francesco Arcangeli in the pages of Paragone in 1954.
Although there is no lack of references in Padua’s works to such close artists as Mattia Moreni, Ennio Morlotti and others, with La forma del tormento we wish to emphasise the great fascination that expressionist art has played in his career
Expressionism, in fact, read and learnt in its various facets, is for him a suitable means of giving voice to his own, burning inner conflict.
A first selection of works testifies to the early attention Padua paid to these languages as early as the 1930s and 1940s: the choice, first and foremost, of techniques such as woodcuts, the hard, decisive strokes in the figures that animate his prints, bring to mind the direct taste for a form of primitivism so beloved of the German masters.
In 1943 came the great rupture that indelibly marked Padua, as an artist but above all as a man: he was deported to Germany to a concentration camp from which he managed to escape four years later.
A painful silence followed, lasting almost a decade, but it was in the subsequent return to painting, mainly through the use of expressionist language, that Padua was able to give voice to his torment.
The exhibition presents, through five sections, the fascination and admiration that Padua had for the great masters throughout his careerfrom Munch and Heckel to Kirchner via the Post-Impressionists and on to the European and American Informal, resulting in an innovative and entirely personal reworking of contemporary language.
Goliardo Padova. La forma del tormento
edited by Giulia Castagnetti and Giulia Ferrari
CSAC, Università di Parma
Abbey of Valserena
Strada Viazza di Paradigna, 1, 43123 Parma PR
Exhibition opening: 4 March 2023 – 16 April 2023
Museum opening hours:
Friday 9 am – 3 pm | Saturday and Sunday 10 am – 7 pm
Tuesday to Thursday guided tours by appointment.
Educational workshop: The Shape of Colour: An Educational Experience of the Works of Goliardo Padova,
For families: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April, 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., reservation required
For schools: 27-31 March, by appointment
Info and reservations:
tel. 0521 903649
e-mail csac@unipr.it, servizimuseali@csacparma.it
website: https://www.csacparma.it/goliardo-padova-la-forma-del-tormento/

Exhibition extended until 26 February "Vedere l'invisibile"
2023-02-26 | Ape Parma Museo, Strada Farini 32/A, Parma, Italia
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 and departments of the University of Parma and developed, in many cases, in national and international collaborations by the University’s researchers and lecturers.
The exhibition is divided into six main sections:
The Zero Room
The infinitely close, immersed in the everyday
The invisible because it is infinitely small
The invisible because hidden
The invisible big and small in children’s di-signs
Cross section “Science and the Imaginary. Writing, Drawing, Thinking the Invisible.”
The exhibition is organised under the patronage of the Comune di Parma and the collaboration of Fondazione Monteparma, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, Istituto dei Materiali per l’Elettronica e il Magnetismo del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche di Parma, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica di Roma, VIRGO, European Gavitational Observatory e Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
Opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday – 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. – Closed Mondays
For all information visit the exhibition website

PNRR: over 870,000 euro for the Natural History Museum and CSAC
2023-02-23 08:00 - 2023-05-25 17:00
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 barriers in public museums and cultural venues, with the aim of significantly expanding the accessibility and sharing of its heritage, paying particular attention to issues of sustainability and inclusion.
The two projects, which focused on the renovation of the Natural History Museum and the expanded accessibility of the CSAC’s heritage, were approved for funding for a total of €871,248.
Two projects in detail:
Natural History Museum
The Ministry has granted EUR 500,000 to make the historical and educational collections of the Natural History Museum of the University of Parma accessible in a single integrated collection, breaking down motor, cognitive and sensory barriers to allow all types of audiences access to an independent visit, and also enhancing educational activities. Currently, the accessibility of the museum’s holdings is limited by the spatial dispersion of the collections and educational laboratories over several buildings and several vertical levels, which particularly penalises visitors with mobility impairments. The project will make it possible to create a museum organised to be accessible to all and sundry, with collections also set up to disseminate the principles of biodiversity, environmental protection and the comparison of two cultures. The project will be the driving force behind the intersection of museum collections with debates on sustainability and the role of the scientific community in relation to society.
The proposed intervention consists in the creation of an independent, barrier-free access route on two levels of the University’s Headquarters: on the ground floor, an arrangement will be created along the perimeter corridor, where the collections now decentralised in various plexuses will be relocated; on the first floor, a single entrance will be created, also signalled by a tactile-planar pathway, with stairs and a lift suitable for motor and sensory disabled persons. The sensory and cognitive accessibility of the collections will be improved by using new display cases of a height suitable for children and visitors with wheelchairs, thus enhancing the quality of the visitor experience for the entire public.
Use will be made of digital explanatory aids and augmented reality tools such as LIS video guides, ITA/ENG audio guides, audio guides for the blind, virtual tours, augmented reality characters for children, bilingual panels with interactive displays, touch totems for zooming in on exhibits, digital caption reading, QR codes.
I lavori inizieranno questo mese e termineranno nella primavera del 2024.
Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione – CSAC
The CSAC project received €371,248 and is dedicated to improving the public welcome of the Centre. The Abbey of Valserena, a prestigious venue, has several rooms dedicated to the public, recently further extended with the possibility of visiting part of the archive, but some of them present critical access for differently abled persons The aim of the project is to create an extended and integrated reception system through the provision of effective actions and tools for several types of users. Reception and visitor support services will be improved, including through apps and devices with verbal, written and LIS content. The facility will be equipped with a tracked stair lift for wheeled chairs for access to the basement and mezzanine areas, and a free transport service will also be activated by reservation, suitable for disabled persons.
Laboratory and tactile enjoyment of the collections will be facilitated by using 3D prints of objects in the archive, with the inclusion of devices for activating additional information. Workshop experiences will be planned for adults, children and schools that, starting from the works and narratives of the Museum, will provide an opportunity to update the proposals and be a starting point for an in-depth examination of specific themes, including social ones (homophobia, feminicide, widespread poverty, new slavery, war, psychological distress, etc.).
The expected results are to create an enlarged community around the structure, interactive with it, so that together with the public new knowledge can be generated, consolidating the social and touristic role of the Museum, with economic spin-offs on the territory as well. The work is scheduled for completion by the end of 2023.
