Drawings and documents from the archives of the Pavia University History Museum and of the Camillo Golgi Museum are currently on display at the Yale Peabody Museum, for the exhibition “Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of perception, attention, and memory”. Camillo Golgi’s drawings depict the observations made by the scientist and Unipv professor and have landed in America together with some postcards of his “scientific antagonist” and fellow Nobel Prize winner, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, to help illustrate the functioning of the organ of thought, which “remains one of the greatest mysteries of science”.

The exhibition, inaugurated on 7 December 2024 and open to visitors until December 2025, investigates the still not fully explored abilities of our brain to construct our perception of reality. To find out more, read the interesting interview with the prof. Paolo Mazzarello with La Provincia Pavese!