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From charts to concrete
Opening science through art: the parietal charts of the G.B. Grassi Museum
On May 16, 2025, the Sapienza Museum of Comparative Anatomy and Wikimedia Italia held a webinar titled Between Science and Art: the Parietal Charts of the G.B. Grassi Museum. The event explored the history and digital future of the museum’s striking hand-painted educational wall charts, created between the late 19th and early 20th centuries to support natural science teaching.
As one of the winners of the 2025 MAB grant, the museum launched a project to digitize and share 100 of these charts on Wikimedia Commons, making them freely accessible to a global audience. The initiative, which involved librarians, artists, photographers, and Wikipedia volunteers, showcased the power of GLAM–Wikimedia collaborations to preserve and promote scientific and artistic heritage through open knowledge.
The webinar was recorded and will be made available on the YouTube channel of Sapienza’s museum network.
Wikipedia meets concrete: students at Tor Vergata improve knowledge on the construction industry
From March to May 2025, students from the University of Tor Vergata took part in a training course on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, thanks to a collaboration between Wikimedia Italia and Federbeton, the Italian federation representing the cement, concrete, and construction materials sector within Confindustria. The course aimed to improve the quality and depth of Wikipedia content on the concrete supply chain, a strategic field for civil engineering and construction.
Participants received training on how to edit Wikipedia, contribute to Wikidata, and upload media to Wikimedia Commons, developing digital and open knowledge skills.
The final editathon will take place on June 7 at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. The event will be open to the public and will bring together students and experts to collaboratively improve Wikipedia articles related to construction materials, significant designers, and engineering topics.
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