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Istituto Carducci and the Nobel Room

The 1910 building where in 1927, for the centenary of Volta's death, the International Congress of Physicists met with twelve Nobel laureates, remembered by the medallions in the hall.

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First Basin
The Istituto Carducci's facade on the avenue, its tall windows and early twentieth-century decoration behind the trees.Ysogo · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Istituto Carducci's facade on the avenue, its tall windows and early twentieth-century decoration behind the trees.

Ysogo · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The Istituto Giosuè Carducci was designed by the architect Cesare Mazzocchi and opened on 20 September 1910 as the home of Pro Cultura popolare, an association founded in 1903 to bring culture to the working classes.

Among its initiatives, the Guido Casartelli travelling teaching museum was based here. In September 1927, for the celebrations of the first centenary of Volta's death, the natural sciences hall hosted the International Congress of Physicists, with twelve Nobel prize winners: it has been called the Nobel Room ever since. Today the room houses the Casartelli Science Museum, a small teaching museum founded in 1917, with frescoes inspired by nature and medallions of the congress's Nobel laureates.

  • The hall where twelve Nobel laureates met in 1927 to honour Volta.
  • On the lakefront, a few steps from the Tempio Voltiano.

Highlights

  • The medallions of the 1927 Nobel laureates
  • The frescoes inspired by nature
  • Carducci's bust on the facade

Getting there

  • On Viale Cavallotti, on the lakefront between Piazza Cavour and the Tempio Voltiano.

Accessibility

  • The rooms of the Museo delle Scienze Casartelli are on the first floor of the building.

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