Exhibitions ’00

  ‘La mostra presenta la straordinaria vicenda umana e cristiana dei Principi degli Apostoli, Pietro e Paolo, documentandone – con l’aiuto delle scienze storiche ed archeologiche -, la presenza nella ... Read More

  ‘The exhibition does not only wish to provide a historic account of Galileo’s story, but also bring to the forefront the human experience of Galileo in all its dimensions, ... Read More

  ‘John, son of Zebedee, brother of John, of Betsaida. Among the major figures that move around Jesus, he is probably the most enigmatic. No one experiences greater intimacy that ... Read More

  ‘The exhibition ‘For one only. History of evangelisation in Burma’ narrates the singular history of the evangelisation of the Burmese Empire, now Union of Myanmar, from the 18th to ... Read More

'The exhibition intends shedding light on the fundamental steps taken by mankind to try and understand the structure and physical laws on which the world and Universe are based. The first great 'intuition' dates back to the Greek "atomists" of the 5th century B.C.. Leucippus and Democritus, who were the first to suggest that matter consists of atoms that move in an infinite vacuum. After making reference to our classical heritage and to the traditions that consolidated in the Greek-Roman period, the exhibition goes on to focus on the Middle-ages, wrongly considered as the "dark" age. Lots of new ideas did in fact blossom in this period, especially in the field of the "fall of gravity" which still considered valid the "natural place" physics of Aristotle (bodies are made of earth and therefore, when freed, fall towards the ground, their natural place). A section of the exhibition will be dedicated to the physics and cosmology of the Middle-ages, presenting this often over-ignored period of history under a new light, from a scientific viewpoint. Physics, like experimental science, developed above all between the 16th and 17th centuries. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, had the greatest intuitions in the field of physics as regards the dynamics of the solar system, universal gravitation, the concept of inertia. After the tremendous success of Newton's mechanical description of the Universe, the scientists of the 18th century associated the electrical interactions between charged bodies with mechanical forces. Electromagnetism was born and developed thanks to Franklin, Priestley, Coulomb, Volta, Galvani. Another crucial step was the study and consequences of the movement of electrical charges and of electromagnetism: Oersted, Faraday, Ampère, right up to Maxwell's great synthesis. But the most important steps towards the formulation of physical theories able to provide increasingly more refined and detailed descriptions of physical phenomena took place in the 20th century, with the discovery of radioactivity, the development of quantum mechanics and relativity and with the application of these to the study of the structure of matter. The 20th-century "milestones" are called Bohr, Schrödinger, Dirac, Einstein, Fermi, Heisenberg, Pauli, Gellmann and many others. As far as atomism is concerned and especially the structure of matter, the important traditions will not be forgotten that germinated in India and Iran, as well as Arab mediation which not only fostered the transmission of scientific culture from East to West, but which, in many cases, takes on the character of a strongly original revision. This exhibition does not wish to restrict its scope to the simple listing of famous names and discoveries but, through these, intends rebuilding history, from the far-away world of the Greeks right up to the most recent physical theories, highlighting how the process was not continuous, but rather consisted of "long jumps" and "great intuitions". The exhibition will also include a series of scientific instruments, models, interactive sections and video-projections. The equipment will be specially made and obtained on loan from the CERN.'

  ‘Born in Milan in 1958, Adriano Abbado studied Electronic Music Composition at Milan Conservatory and Media Arts at the MIT Media Laboratory, where in 1988 he obtained a Master ... Read More

  ‘On 6 December 1997, in Modena, in the Abbey Basilica of San Pietro, the Canonisation Proceedings began for Uberto Mori, an engineer from Modena, born in 1926, a life ... Read More

  ‘This exhibition experience stems from an idea and a curiosity: where does humanness take shape and which are instances of humanity achieved to the full? ‘Holiness is the reflection ... Read More

  ‘An exhibition dedicated to the works of young artists – under 40 years of age -invited by a group of professors of the Art History Institute of Milan’s Catholic ... Read More

  ‘The exhibition narrates the major aspects concerning the building of the Basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome. It takes a look at a work that everyone knows but which ... Read More

  ‘Once again, the voices of poetry at the Meeting. In a space organised by ClanDestino, the poetry and literature magazine edited by Davide Rondoni, great poetry of our time ... Read More

  ‘This exhibition, organised by the international cultural association ‘Identità Europea’, in no way intends denying the legitimacy of the aspiration to the political unification of Italy with Rome as ... Read More

  ‘La mostra descrive l’impatto dell’uomo col Mistero, la necessità di trovare i segni che ne testimonino la presenza, lo stupore di fronte alla realtà. Non solo una storia delle ... Read More

  ‘El padre Maximiliano Kolbe, muerto en Auschwiz el 14 de agosto de 1941 y proclamado Santo por Juan Pablo II en 1982, se nos presenta como una persona totalmente ... Read More

  ’31 July, 2000 marked the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Vladimir Sergeevic Solov’ëv, most definitely the greatest of Russian religious thinkers and among the leading thinkers in ... Read More