The Virtual Museum of the Salernitan Medical School was born from the transformation and expansion of the Didactic Museum of the Salernitan Medical School, created in 1993 by the Superintendency. In the virtual museum, the themes and protagonists of that glorious chapter, which, in the years immediately following the year 1000, saw Salerno at the center of the scientific renaissance of the West, come alive again in an engaging and interactive narrative. An important hub of cultural and commercial traffic, Salerno, a Lombard capital deeply rooted in classical culture, reached expressions of freedom and cultural openness with an international breath in scientific elaboration.
Here, through the study of the authoritative sources of classical medicine and Arab medicine and through the medical activity 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, highlights 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 equipment of the narration, which unfolds smoothly and accessibly, between spectacles 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 videos, illuminated panels, photographic reproductions, and reproductions of ancient surgical instruments.
Virtual Museum of the Salernitan Medical SchoolTechnological innovation quickly rendered the equipment used inadequate, and it was therefore necessary to design this new setup, which takes advantage of the most advanced IT technologies and is able to communicate widely both with a generally informed audience.
Information about Virtual Museum of the Salernitan Medical School
Via dei Mercanti,74
84100 Salerno (Salerno)
089 2573228 – 089 2573245 / 213
Internet: https://www.lascuolamedicasalernitana.beniculturali.it
