TRANFORMATIONS AND METAMORPHOSES. Natural phenomena and human imagination

We will be entering the animal kingdom through a side door. Not the usual one of biological classification, which separates reptiles from birds, and mammals from fish, but the one of transformation: lizards that shed their tails, fish that change sex, mollusks that rebuild themselves when the old body no longer works.

Metamorphoses and transformation has always fed both our imagination and our science. Myths, fairy tales, and cults teem with shape-shifting beings; and it was precisely by reflecting on change that Darwin formulated his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection — reminding us that evolution is not a chapter closed in the past, but a process unfolding at every moment, ourselves included.

A workshop for families with children aged 8 and up, inspired by the book Cambiare. Trasformismi, metamorfosi, migrazioni nel regno animale by Federica Buglioni and Francesca Ballarini - Topipittori, 2025, with Federica Buglioni. Alongside her, Sara Ambrosoli and Paolo Cavallo from the Itur Educational Team at the Gesso and Stura River Park.

The activity is free of charge; you must purchase an admission ticket to the museum at the ticket office or online.