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06/03/2024 – Ten islands to tell the nature of the Marche between nature, land, sea, agriculture, living, mechanics, electricity, calculation, education and digital.
The regional documentary exhibition “WunderKammer Marche” was inaugurated in the former church of Santa Maria della Misericordia in Piazza Del Popolo, an exhibition itinerary conceived and curated by the engineer Oronzo Mauro with art installations by the architect Shura Oyarce Yuzzelli, dedicated to the Marche, the only region in Italy in the plural but thought of in the singular, which truly represents, as in the title of the exhibition, a “chamber of wonders” in which a land of art, technology, crossroads of ancient trades, illustrious people, scientific collecting, urban planning of all times and valuable archives. In the very rich itinerary, made up of an impressive number of objects, also the first historic power plant, perhaps unique in the world but certainly in Italy, which here is presented as entirely digitalised.
For the rest, the numbers of this cultural event give an idea of what it represents: 10 islands of wonder, a region involved, 2 months of exhibition, 3 conferences scheduled, 2 promoting municipalities, 1 university collaborating, as well as 200 objects in the showcase dating back to between 1850 and 1950, 50 explanatory posters, a great condensation of magic.
The exhibition, with free entry, will remain open until July 31st. Presiding over the inauguration ceremony were the vice president of the Marche Region, Filippo Saltamartini, together with the mayor of the city of San Severino Marche, the vice mayor and councilor for culture, Vanna Bianconi, the municipal councilor for tourism, Michela Pezzanesi, the president of City council, Sandro Granata. Organized by the Municipality together with the Pro Loco and the Municipality of Castelraimondo and with the contributions of the Polytechnic University of Marche, the Salimbeni Foundation, the Museums of San Severino, the Academy of Fine Arts of Macerata and the MaMa Marca Maceratese association with the support of the Marche Region through the Single Notice 2023/2024 “Exhibition events of regional value”, the exhibition follows the example of those which, precisely in the Marche, were the “chambers of wonders” and which allowed the opening of Federico’s studios from Montefeltro in its ducal palaces of Urbino and Gubbio around the 1480s.
