DIFFERENT SKIES



 ASTRONOMY BETWEEN MYTH AND SCIENCE IN THE FIVE CONTINENTS
Eucherio Sanvitale Palace - PARCO DUCALE

CITY OF PARMA

Popular science exhibition organized in collaboration with the Cultural Association Googol and study Planorbis. In every age, the way of being a man with his reality was constantly torn between the need to observe and desire to imagine. This exhibition will trace an original path between exploratory skies, presenting together the two aspects, different and complementary, of human knowledge: that of science, which is the explanation of the origin and structure of the universe, and the myth, as you follow the trail through the five continents, discovering similarities and differences in the stories that people have told. The sky is not the same for all the inhabitants of our planet: in fact, the geographical position determines what you can see and the cultural differences between people will give different readings. The sky is changing and with it the stories but always gods, heroes, princesses and animals have lived. Conceived as a journey between past and future, with constant references between ethnographic culture and cosmology, the exhibition is divided into six stages, punctuated with text panels developed by astrophysicists Googol Association and enriched by the spectacular images NASA / ESO.
http://www.cultura.comune.parma.it/public/pictures/diversi%20cieli-def_spedizione.pdf