Extinctions at the Muse

Stories of disasters and other opportunities

From a research project, aiming also at the popularization of science, developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the MUSE opens the exhibition Estinzioni Extinctions (from 16 July 2016 to 26 June 2017): a story that talks about disasters and challenges, but also about successes and fortunes, where science and society meet each other.
With Extinctions. Stories of disasters and other opportunities, the MUSE starts an ambitious project that draws a parallel between all research and reflections on the sixth mass extinction - or the ecological crisis we are experiencing - and the dynamics of the five great paleontological extinctions occurred in the last 500 million years.

The project is an important work of research and selection of the most significant original vertebrate finds preserved in Italian museums (Turin, Rome, Florence, Ferrara, Treviso, Voghera, Padua, Verona and Trento): from the skeleton of a large sauropod dinosaur (the only one of this type exhibited in an Italian museum) that will welcome the audience at the entrance of the exhibition, to the famous “Guattari I” Neanderthal skull, the most complete preserved in our country.

The repertoire of the exhibits - all original - with the stories that lie behind each of them, will let us learn about the fate of the most charismatic species that have disappeared.

The exhibition is enhanced by sophisticated multimedia installations, videos and original animations, interviews and interactive spaces. Among the unpublished documents, some excellent films can’t be missed, especially the one of Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the child - now become a committed environmental activist - who in 1992 "silenced" the world with her speech at UN in defense of the planet's future.

All these evidences together are the fil rouge of a project that for the first time in Italy puts in relation paleontology and sociology, conservation biology and economics; as a result, we are offered a lucid analysis of the dynamics that reveal dangerous parallels between the major crises of the past with the crisis we’re experiencing today.

 

CURATORS

Massimo Bernardi, Michele Menegon, Alessandra Pallaveri – Muse, Trento, Telmo Pievani – Università degli Studi di Padova

 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Telmo Pievani, Elena Canadelli, Paola Nicolosi (Università degli Studi di Padova); Franco Andreone, (Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino); Maurizio Casiraghi (Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca); Luca Bondioli (Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini"); Raffaele Sardella (Sapienza Università di Roma); Massimo Bernardi, Michele Menegon, Elisabetta Flor, Michele Lanzinger, Alessandra Pallaveri (MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento). 

Info

The exhibition Estinzioni, developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, is the result of a cooperation between the Universities of Padua, Milan (Bicocca), the Regional Museum of Natural Science of Turin and the MUSE of Trento.

The exhibition will be opened on Saturday 16 July 2016 and can be visited until 26 June 2017; it will later be shown in Padua and Turin, and other venues to be defined.

Costs

Admission tickets for MUSE:

full price ticket:  10

reduced price ticket: € 8

Two parents with minors (up to 18 years of age): € 20
One parent with minors (up to 18 years of age): € 10


13/07/2016