From October 12, 2021, to February 27, 2022, the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome will be hosting "Three Stations for Art-Science", a vast project seen from three different viewpoints: the historical one (The Science of Rome: a City's Past, Present and Future); the artistic one (T Zero); and the viewpoint of contemporary scientific research (Uncertainty: Interpreting the Present, Foreseeing the Future). Sapienza University has actively contributed to the project.

Fabrizio Rufo, from our Department of Environmental Biology, together with Stefano Papi, a science populariser and palaeontologist, addressed the theme The Science of Rome: a City's Past, Present and Future and designed the exhibition; the project aims to tell the story of scientific ideas and their impact on society through the great scientists who worked in Rome and the great discoveries made here.

An evocative textual narration will accompany the visitor through the nine sections of the exhibition, filled with exciting and often unpublished original scientific artefacts such as the watercolour moon phases drawn by Galileo Galilei, the original Neanderthal skull found in Saccopastore, the actual instruments belonged to the "boys from Via Panisperna", the group of young scientists led by Nobel Prize Enrico Fermi, and Athanasius Kircher's plates. Videos and iconographic apparatuses enrich the exhibition.

The project, promoted by ROMA Culture, has been devised and organised by the Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in conjunction with numerous public institutions, including the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics INFN, which is responsible for the entire design and planning of the exhibition entitled "Uncertainty".

"The Science of Rome" was sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

Reduced prices for students and university staff.

More information on the Palazzo delle Esposizioni website.