{"id":172565,"date":"2025-06-10T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/news\/il-museo-degli-strumenti-per-il-calcolo-torna-alla-cittadella-galileiana\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:45:49","slug":"il-museo-degli-strumenti-per-il-calcolo-torna-alla-cittadella-galileiana","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/news\/il-museo-degli-strumenti-per-il-calcolo-torna-alla-cittadella-galileiana\/","title":{"rendered":"The Museum of Computing Instruments returns to the Cittadella Galileiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Museum of Computing Instruments of the University of Pisa has returned to its historic location at the Cittadella Galileiana, with a new exhibition entitled<strong><em>\u00a0Not just calculation \u2013 working life and free time before the arrival of the Internet<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\nTo inaugurate the new exhibition \u2013 curated by\u00a0<strong>Fabio Gadducci<\/strong>, Director of the Museum of Computing Instruments,<strong>\u00a0Giuseppe Lettieri<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Antonio Viti<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 on Friday, 6 June, the following were present:<strong>\u00a0Antonio Mazzeo<\/strong>, President of the Consiglio Regionale Toscana,<strong> Marco Macchia<\/strong>,\u00a0Vice-rector for Community Engagement, <strong>Francesco Leccese<\/strong>, Vice-rector for Buildings and Real Estate Assets and\u00a0<strong> Lorenzo Peruzzi<\/strong>, Head of the Sistema Museale di Ateneo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170354\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-170354 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/1.png 900w, https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-768x613.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Lorenzo Peruzzi, Marco Macchia, Francesco Leccese, Giuseppe Lettieri, Antonio Mazzeo and Fabio Gadducci<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Not just calculation \u2013 working life and free time before the arrival of the Internet<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0presented tools that characterised work and free time from the late 1800s to the 1990s. In the early 1990s, the Museum of Computing Instruments started to take shape: laying the foundations of its collection in a still pioneering period allowed it to build, through bequests and acquisitions, a European-level collection. The exhibition enhances this heritage not only from a technical perspective but also in terms of its historical, cultural, and social significance.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the reopening,<strong> exceptional guides included some of the pioneers in computer science<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Lucia Barsanti Calamia, Graziano Bertini and Giuseppe Iazeolla<\/strong>, who shared the stories behind some of the machines on display, together with\u00a0<strong>Andrea Tendola<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Giovanni Cignoni<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAlongside objects such as cash registers and mechanical computing machines, the exhibition featured historical computers such as the<strong>\u00a0first Olivetti word processors<\/strong>\u00a0or the <strong>Amiga and PC with SoundBlaster cards<\/strong>. Among the various sections, one was dedicated to 1980s video games, such as the <strong>Commodore 64<\/strong> and the <strong>ZX Spectrum<\/strong>, and another to the history of computer music in Pisa, with contributions from pioneer Pietro Grossi.<br \/>\nA fundamental part of the exhibition was dedicated to the\u00a0<strong>history of computer science in Pisa<\/strong>, highlighting key figures such as Mario Tchou, Pier Giorgio Perotto, Alessandro Faedo and Milvio Capovani, and the historical milestones in the development of the Calcolatrice Elettronica Pisana (CEP) and the ELEA 9003. The Museum also showcases the scientific and academic context that led to the creation of the degree course in Information Science and the CNUCE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new exhibition opened on Friday, 6 June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":170365,"menu_order":5,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"tag-notizie-persone":[],"tags_news":[1887],"categorie":[159],"class_list":["post-172565","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tags_news-museums","categorie-unipinews-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Museum of Computing Instruments returns to the Cittadella Galileiana ~ UNIPI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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