The Civic Museums for International Women's Day

Events on March 7:

• All the Women of the Certosa
  2:00 pm, Certosa Cemetery – Via della Certosa 18
  The epitaphs of the silent city often remember women as wives, consorts, brides, sisters. But there are also memorials that recall their contribution to society: Brigida, Gualberta, Lina, Tommasina—women who worked in the worlds of culture, politics, and entertainment.
  A walk with Roberto Martorelli through the Monumental Cemetery of the Certosa, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  Organized by the Associazione Amici della Certosa with the Museo civico del Risorgimento.
  Booking required at prenotazionicertosa@gmail.com. Confirmation email of successful booking is required.
  Meeting point at the main entrance (church courtyard), Via della Certosa 18.

• A Voice in Balance. Tribute to Eta Boeriu
  5:30 pm, Museo della Musica - Strada Maggiore 34
  As part of the series “wunderkammer the museum of wonders”.
  For “ri-Creazioni - the Athena Musica meetings”, meeting with Cristina Pascu. Live Ioana Badiu, soprano; Christophe Alvarez and Georgiana Fodorne, piano. Organized by Academia Nationala de Muzica Gheorghe Dima - Cluj-Napoca in collaboration with Athena Musica.
  The lecture-recital is dedicated to Eta Boeriu (1923–1984).
  An Italianist and translator, she rendered into Romanian the complete poetic works of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Leopardi, Verga, Moravia, Pavese, and Vittorini. Eta Boeriu was also a writer and poet, author of refined poems inspired by music.
  The event aims to highlight her original contribution to the dialogue between cultures and artistic worlds, bringing together music, poetry, literary studies, and translation studies.
  A lecture by musicologist Cristina Pascu and a vocal-instrumental recital by soprano Ioana Badiu and pianists Christophe Alvarez and Georgiana Fodor will explore the musical resonances of Italian poets, from Dante to Petrarch, in Eta Boeriu’s translations, featuring works by Rossini, Puccini, Pizzetti, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, von Bülow, and Liszt.
  The meeting between poetry and music is a metaphor for the cultural continuity to which Eta Boeriu dedicated her artistic and professional life: her figure emerges as a luminous presence in European humanism, building a bridge between two cultural traditions—Italian and Romanian—united by a shared devotion to art.
  Free tickets can be booked:
  at the Museo della Musica ticket office during opening hours
  online at www.museibologna.it/musica.
  Bookings are valid until 5 minutes before the event begins.

Events on March 8:

• Weaving Freedom
  10:00 am–1:00 pm, Museo del Risorgimento - Piazza Carducci 5
  By purchasing a museum ticket, visitors may access, free of charge and without booking, a museum mediation service in Italian and English. Mediators can be recognized by badges bearing the symbol “Ask me”.
  Beyond the names and faces that usually populate history books, there is a precious and often invisible thread: the one woven by women. This itinerary highlights the fundamental role of those who, during the long nineteenth century in Bologna, chose to inhabit the public sphere. From barricades to salons, women’s presence and choices were not marginal, but a conscious force that made a difference.

• The Disobedient Women
  10:30 am, Certosa Cemetery – Via della Certosa 18
  These are the ladies of art, women of extraordinary talent who, during the long nineteenth century, were relegated to the background yet managed to slip through the tight grip of patriarchy and shape a history of painting and art that cannot and must not be overshadowed.
  Along the route participants will encounter Anna Maria Ferracani, Barbara Baldini, Cinzia Barbieri, Cinzia Giannoni, Daniele Vandelli, Donatella Baschieri, Ettore Raggi, Fiorenza Fiorini, Jolanda Gigli, Marco Martinelli, Maria Chiara Pazzaglia, Maria Grazia Billi, Mariella Lascaro, Monica Corsi, Morena Diamantini, Roberta Rubbini, Sabina Macchiavelli, Silena Mingozzi, Valentina Nanni, Veronica Rizzi, Viviana Padula.
  Organized by the Associazione La Meta Teatro.
  Booking required at +39 051 560975 (Tuesday and Friday from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm) or at lametacentrodonne@gmail.com.
  Meeting point at the main entrance (church courtyard), Via della Certosa 18.

• The Other Half of Art: Presence and Absence of Women in Museums
  3:00 pm–5:30 pm, Collezioni Comunali d’Arte, Palazzo d’Accursio - Piazza Maggiore 6 | MAMbo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna - Via Don Minzoni 14
  The MAMbo | Museo Morandi Education Department and the Educational Services of the Ancient Art Area propose an inter-museum guided tour.
  An opportunity to reflect together on the intermittent presence of female figures in history, art, and literature and to ask what has actually changed.
  The activity begins at 3:00 pm at the Collezioni Comunali d’Arte with the route “The Other Half of History” and concludes at MAMbo with “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”.
  Booking required at: musarteanticascuole@comune.bologna.it | +39 051 2193930

• The Hidden Side of Science: The Stories of Lucia Galvani, Marie-Anne Lavoisier and Hedy Lamarr
  4:00 pm, Museo del Patrimonio Industriale - Via della Beverara 123
  Workshop for families with children aged 8 and up. Three stories of three women scientists. With the help of instruments and small experiments during the workshop, participants will retrace the discoveries to which these scientists contributed, shedding light on one of the hidden sides of the history of science.
  Admission: free for each child and one accompanying adult. Booking required by 1:00 pm on Friday, March 6 at: tel. +39 051 6356611 | museopat@comune.bologna.it

• OtoDama 音霊 The Soul of Sounds
  4:00 pm, Museo Civico Archeologico - Via dell'Archiginnasio 2, Bologna
  As part of the public program of the exhibition GRAPHIC JAPAN. From Hokusai to manga, the Museo Civico Archeologico and MondoMostre present a special all-female concert arriving in Bologna after several stops in Italy, Europe, and Japan.
  “OtoDama 音霊 The Soul of Sounds” will transport the audience into the sound and spiritual tradition handed down for centuries across the various regions of Japan, up to contemporary anime.
  Voice and sanshin: Shinobu Kikuchi
  Cello: Yuriko Mikami
  Narration: Rossella Menegazzo
  Projection of works by Katsuya Kikuchi
  Free admission while seats last (90). No booking required.

• The Queen of the Bow. The Life, Genius and Freedom of Maddalena Lombardini Syrmen, Virtuosa of Europe
  5:30 pm, Museo della Musica - Strada Maggiore 34
  As part of the series “wunderkammer the museum of wonders”. For “INSOLITA the music you don’t expect”, concert by Delirium Amoris: Karla Bocaz Muñoz and Stefano Gérard, violins; Federico Immesi, cello; Anna Corsini, harpsichord.
  An acclaimed violin virtuoso and more, praised by Leopold Mozart and Charles Burney, Maddalena Laura Lombardini Syrmen played a fundamental role in projecting the Tartini style toward the Classical taste that soon spread throughout Europe.
  This concert pays tribute to a great performer and composer who is still not sufficiently recognized.
  The concert is preceded by “Academic Quarter Hour”: museum experts will present unique pieces related to the concert program.
  Tickets may be purchased in advance:
  at the Museo della Musica ticket office during opening hours
  online (with a €1.00 surcharge) at www.museibologna.it/musica.

Events online:

• Free and Bold. Women in History Told by the Civic Museums of Bologna
  24/7
  Also worth noting is the thematic path permanently available on the Google Arts & Culture platform. Activities considered commonplace, such as playing music, acting, and reading, have represented major achievements for women. Many have courageously forged paths of freedom, contributed to social progress, and, in certain historical phases, helped shape the world as we know it today. The story allows visitors to discover the many female figures narrated by Bologna’s civic collections, representing models of emancipation.