Museums & culture
Tempio Voltiano
Alessandro Volta's original instruments in a neoclassical rotunda on the lake.
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- Culture
26 Mar – 31 Dec
Como
200VOLTeVOLTA — the Alessandro Volta bicentenary
Two hundred years since Volta's death: talks, visits and exhibitions, in Como and beyond.
- Where
- Tempio Voltiano, Villa del Grumello and other venues
- Recurrence
- the bicentenary programme, March 2026 to May 2027, not recurring
- Tickets
- Each event has its own terms: the Fondazione's calendar gives them.
Dates confirmed by the organiser.
Alessandro Volta died in Como on 5 March 1827. For the bicentenary the Fondazione Alessandro Volta, with Milan's Museum of Science and Technology and the University of Pavia, puts on two hundred events.
There are lectures and popular-science talks, often at the Tempio Voltiano and Villa del Grumello, guided visits to the Tempio and to Volta's house, exhibitions and the Festival of Light. The full calendar, month by month, is on the Fondazione's site.
The programme
The bicentenary calendar runs from March 2026 to May 2027.
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