Racconti della Terra: a spasso in Liguria tra geologia e storia

The exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue with some introductive essais, originates from the European Project “Aristhot. Sciences en Mèditerranée” co-financed by UE (Interreg IIIB Medocc programm); this project involved 14 partners from 8 different European and non-European countries. Exposition (inserted also in the Festival of Science 2007) follows step by step the “geological discovery of Ligurian Region” through personages that have had important influence in this topic field (Arturo Issel, Clarence Bicknell, Lorenzo Pareto, Gaetano Rovereto) and shows the work field of the geologist thanks to historical maps, scientific instruments and “field books”(as Lorenzo Pareto and Clarence Bicknell books), from the University of Genoa. Geological structure of the Ligurian Region is the guide-thread in a travel between areas in which the close interaction of geological characteristics and human occupancy/activity have had a strong influence on both the landscape and the cultural/economic hostory since prehistoric times. Books, documents and objects (ex. rocks, minerals, fossils, prehistorically and archeological artifacts) from civic and university Libraries and Museums create an exposition path, that, although very close to the Earth Sciences, proposes a first experiment of presentation of the ligurian geodiversity in a interdisciplinary point of view.