The Preziose carte exhibition, promoted for the first time by the University of Trieste Museum System (SmaTS), was a success. The initiative, carried out as part of the agreement between Stazione Rogers and the University of Trieste, offered five meetings at Stazione Rogers, from November 13 to December 11, to discover some of the treasures and works of art from the libraries and archives of the University Museum System. 

For those who were unable to attend the meetings in person, full recordings of the conferences are available on the Smats website.

The series began with a presentation by Cristina Cocever and Elisa Zilli, librarians at the University of Trieste, who presented the book Keika Zuan by Keika Hasegawa, an important 19th-century Japanese artist, belonging to the Library of the Institute for the Promotion of Small Industries in Trieste.

The second event, held by Maria Rosa Mezzi, librarian at the University of Trieste, and Zeno Saracino, historian and journalist, explored some of the contents of Michelangelo Rustia's 1864 manual, Schiarimenti sull'arte della ginnastica con un avviamento agli esercizi elementari (Clarifications on the art of gymnastics with an introduction to elementary exercises).

The following week, Rossella Fabiani, art historian, and Cristina Cocever illustrated Pietro Nobile's Album di disegni di Sant'Antonio Nuovo (Album of Drawings of Sant'Antonio Nuovo), kept in the Writers' Archive of the University of Trieste.

Walter Gerbino, professor at the University of Trieste nel quarto incontro si è poi concentrato sulle opere grafiche e pittoriche di Gaetano Kanizsa presenti nelle collezioni del Sistema Museale di Ateneo.

A chiusura della rassegna, Massimo De Grassi, docente dell’Università di Trieste e Serena Paganini, storica dell’arte, hanno presentato il fondo dell’artista Dino Predonzani, donato dagli eredi all’Università di Trieste.

Preziose carte continuerà anche nel 2026 con altre iniziative alla scoperta del patrimonio bibliografico del Sistema Museale di Ateneo.