(ENG) MUNIPA

THE HEADQUARTERS - STERI PALACE Palazzo Chiaramonte, known as the “Steri”, is one of the symbolic places of the city of Palermo. It contains seven centuries of Sicilian art and history and is the first example of the new architectural style that appeared in Sicily at the beginning of the 14th century, the style, called “Chiaramontano”. Elegant and solemn, the palace is enriched by splendid colonnades and beautiful mullioned and triple mullioned windows. The construction of the building was started by Giovanni Chiaromonte in the first half of the fourteenth century and was the home of Manfredi I, count of the immense and powerful fief of Modica. The place of construction, in the Kalsa district, was chosen for its proximity to the sea and the quality of the building land: a rocky ridge adjacent to the port, in front of the bend covered by marshes in the area on which Piazza Marina stands today. The Munipa museum is housed in a space inside the Palazzo Steri complex located on a stretch of Via della Rosa, preceded by the first of the pointed arches of the portico attached to the fourteenth-century garden at the corner with Via dei Magazines, between the body of the Church of Sant 'Antonio Abate (Protector of the Chiaramonte family) and the path leading to the ancient viridarium (recently restored) behind the complex. The space in question is located in one of the buildings that housed the nineteenth-century warehouses of the former Customs, some of which intended to house the Historical Archive and now cleared for the change of use from a place of conservation to a museum space. MUNIPA The objectives of MUNIPA are to tell the history of the University, illustrate its activities and tell the protagonists of the past and present, strengthening the identity of the University. MUNIPA presents itself in its spatiality, articulated on two levels, the first - near the entrance to the Steri - offers a broad overview of the most significant episodes of the University of Palermo, through its women and men, in an arc of time from the foundation to the present day. This development is also told in relation to the morphology of the city, the urban and decentralized University offices, present in various centers of Sicily and international exchanges through the list of countries with which UniPa currently has institutional agreements. On the upper level, a selection of finds, objects and artifacts (paintings, sculptures, fossils, minerals, scientific instruments, anatomical and botanical didactic models, zoological finds, but also volumes and archival documents) are exhibited, all of which are part of the Collections of the Museum System of Athenaeum and the Departments, chosen to tell stories that develop around the figures of eminent professors of the University - Piazzi, Gemellaro, Doderlein, Segrè, to name a few - to their research, their studies, their teachings. This is a limited selection and for this reason a changing and periodically renewed setting is expected to be able to express, through thematic installations, the different disciplinary areas and the different protagonists of the University.

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THE HEADQUARTERS - STERI PALACE Palazzo Chiaramonte, known as the “Steri”, is one of the symbolic places of the city of Palermo. It contains seven centuries of Sicilian art and history and is the first example of the new architectural style that appeared in Sicily at the beginning of the 14th century, the style, called “Chiaramontano”. Elegant and solemn, the palace is enriched by splendid colonnades and beautiful mullioned and triple mullioned windows. The construction of the building was started by Giovanni Chiaromonte in the first half of the fourteenth century and was the home of Manfredi I, count of the immense and powerful fief of Modica. The place of construction, in the Kalsa district, was chosen for its proximity to the sea and the quality of the building land: a rocky ridge adjacent to the port, in front of the bend covered by marshes in the area on which Piazza Marina stands today. The Munipa museum is housed in a space inside the Palazzo Steri complex located on a stretch of Via della Rosa, preceded by the first of the pointed arches of the portico attached to the fourteenth-century garden at the corner with Via dei Magazines, between the body of the Church of Sant 'Antonio Abate (Protector of the Chiaramonte family) and the path leading to the ancient viridarium (recently restored) behind the complex. The space in question is located in one of the buildings that housed the nineteenth-century warehouses of the former Customs, some of which intended to house the Historical Archive and now cleared for the change of use from a place of conservation to a museum space. MUNIPA The objectives of MUNIPA are to tell the history of the University, illustrate its activities and tell the protagonists of the past and present, strengthening the identity of the University. MUNIPA presents itself in its spatiality, articulated on two levels, the first - near the entrance to the Steri - offers a broad overview of the most significant episodes of the University of Palermo, through its women and men, in an arc of time from the foundation to the present day. This development is also told in relation to the morphology of the city, the urban and decentralized University offices, present in various centers of Sicily and international exchanges through the list of countries with which UniPa currently has institutional agreements. On the upper level, a selection of finds, objects and artifacts (paintings, sculptures, fossils, minerals, scientific instruments, anatomical and botanical didactic models, zoological finds, but also volumes and archival documents) are exhibited, all of which are part of the Collections of the Museum System of Athenaeum and the Departments, chosen to tell stories that develop around the figures of eminent professors of the University - Piazzi, Gemellaro, Doderlein, Segrè, to name a few - to their research, their studies, their teachings. This is a limited selection and for this reason a changing and periodically renewed setting is expected to be able to express, through thematic installations, the different disciplinary areas and the different protagonists of the University.

THE HEADQUARTERS - STERI PALACE Palazzo Chiaramonte, known as the “Steri”, is one of the symbolic places of the city of Palermo. It contains seven centuries of Sicilian art and history and is the first example of the new architectural style that appeared in Sicily at the beginning of the 14th century, the style, called “Chiaramontano”. Elegant and solemn, the palace is enriched by splendid colonnades and beautiful mullioned and triple mullioned windows. The construction of the building was started by Giovanni Chiaromonte in the first half of the fourteenth century and was the home of Manfredi I, count of the immense and powerful fief of Modica. The place of construction, in the Kalsa district, was chosen for its proximity to the sea and the quality of the building land: a rocky ridge adjacent to the port, in front of the bend covered by marshes in the area on which Piazza Marina stands today. The Munipa museum is housed in a space inside the Palazzo Steri complex located on a stretch of Via della Rosa, preceded by the first of the pointed arches of the portico attached to the fourteenth-century garden at the corner with Via dei Magazines, between the body of the Church of Sant 'Antonio Abate (Protector of the Chiaramonte family) and the path leading to the ancient viridarium (recently restored) behind the complex. The space in question is located in one of the buildings that housed the nineteenth-century warehouses of the former Customs, some of which intended to house the Historical Archive and now cleared for the change of use from a place of conservation to a museum space. MUNIPA The objectives of MUNIPA are to tell the history of the University, illustrate its activities and tell the protagonists of the past and present, strengthening the identity of the University. MUNIPA presents itself in its spatiality, articulated on two levels, the first - near the entrance to the Steri - offers a broad overview of the most significant episodes of the University of Palermo, through its women and men, in an arc of time from the foundation to the present day. This development is also told in relation to the morphology of the city, the urban and decentralized University offices, present in various centers of Sicily and international exchanges through the list of countries with which UniPa currently has institutional agreements. On the upper level, a selection of finds, objects and artifacts (paintings, sculptures, fossils, minerals, scientific instruments, anatomical and botanical didactic models, zoological finds, but also volumes and archival documents) are exhibited, all of which are part of the Collections of the Museum System of Athenaeum and the Departments, chosen to tell stories that develop around the figures of eminent professors of the University - Piazzi, Gemellaro, Doderlein, Segrè, to name a few - to their research, their studies, their teachings. This is a limited selection and for this reason a changing and periodically renewed setting is expected to be able to express, through thematic installations, the different disciplinary areas and the different protagonists of the University.