The Virtual Museum of the Salerno Medical School was born from the transformation and expansion of the Didactic Museum of the Salerno Medical School, created in 1993 by the Superintendence. In the virtual museum, the themes and protagonists of that glorious chapter that, in the years immediately following the year 1000, saw Salerno at the center of the scientific renaissance of the West come to life again in an engaging and interactive narrative. An important hub of cultural and commercial exchanges, Salerno, a Lombard capital firmly rooted in classical culture, reached expressions of freedom and cultural openness of international scope in scientific elaboration.
Here, through the study of authoritative sources of classical medicine and Arabic medicine, and through the medical activities practiced and taught by monks and laypeople, that scientific knowledge was defined, which placed man with his health, his rules, and his harmony with nature at the center of philosophy. The virtual theater, through a specifically designed script, emphasizes its centrality, while symbolically representing the meeting of two distant worlds.
A careful research among precious medieval manuscripts, preserved in the most important Italian and European libraries, provided the very rich iconographic repertoire of the narrative, which unfolds smoothly and is accessible through spectacular displays and animated miniatures. Over the years, the small museum became a point of reference for scholars, tourists, and school audiences to whom extensive documentation and information were offered through films, illuminated panels, photographic reproductions, and reproductions of ancient surgical instruments.
Virtual Museum of the Salerno Medical SchoolTechnological innovation quickly made the equipment used inadequate, and therefore it was necessary to design this new setup, which makes use of the most advanced IT technologies and is able to communicate widely with a generally informed audience.
Information about the Virtual Museum of the Salerno Medical School
Via dei Mercanti, 74
84100 Salerno (Salerno)
089 2573228 – 089 2573245 / 213
Internet: https://www.lascuolamedicasalernitana.beniculturali.it
