The Evolution of Physics between Historical Research and Museology

The research activity creates a synergy between the fields of history of physics and scientific instrumentation, museology, and the conservation and enhancement of scientific and technological heritage.

Significant developments in the legislative and academic spheres over the last twenty years – such as the approval of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape and the "material turn" in the history of science research –  demonstrate the importance of looking at scientific heritage, its objects, and instruments, as material sources with high cognitive potential and great impact, both for understanding the development of physics and its practices, and for its teaching, as well as for the understanding of the role of physics by the society.

The research activity aims to implement a historical approach to the discipline which is promising to display this potential and that, in addition to the publication of articles and sector materials, leads to the creation of museum exhibitions and projects that are part of the broader landscape of scientific communication.