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Unique opportunity to engage with the musealisation of natural science!
The Museum of Natural History, La Specola, reopened in February 2024 after four years of refurbishment. It is the first natural history museum ever opened to the public in Europe, and we will have a unique opportunity at the EUl to host the team that manage it and carried out this great renovation. Their directors, Lucilla Conigliello and Annamaria Nistri, and three curators will discuss the challenges of displaying scientific and natural items (animals, plants, minerals, anatomical waxes, etc.) in the 21st century and in such a historical building. They will also give us some insights into the different collections and their daily tasks (displaying, curating and researching) to help us understand, especially during the Q&A, how we can rely on such museums, materials and curators’ knowledge to support our own research inquiries.
Date and Place:
6 December 2024 (10:00 am – 12:00 am) at the EUI Badia Fiesolana (Sala del Capitolo)
Organisers:
EUI Material and Visual History Working Group & EUI Science and Medicine History Working Group
Speakers:
Lucilla Conigliello, Director of the Sistema Museale di Ateneo, UniFi
Annamaria Nistri, Head of ‘La Specola’
Fausto Barbagli, Curator: zoology (birds)
Marta Biaggini, Curator: Anatomical Waxes
Gianna Innocenti, Curator: zoology (Crustaceans, Echinoderms)