The "Precious Papers" exhibition, promoted by the University Museum System (SmaTS), continues on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 6:00 PM at the Rogers Station (Riva Grumula 14).

The second event, entitled "Reading the Landscape – Herbarium and Herbs of the Karst", will feature taxonomist and University of Trieste professor Stefano Martellos and naturalist, zoologist, and popularizer Nicola Bressi, former director of the Trieste civic museum system and currently curator at the Museum of Natural History.

Martellos will focus in particular on the importance of botanical collections held in museums and universities, their digitization, and their conservation. He will then describe the Herbarium of the University of Trieste, contextualizing it in the Karst region, a zone of biogeographical tension, whose flora is the result of the encounter of plant populations from different areas, and of human intervention starting with the Castellieri civilization.

Nicola Bressi will focus on the role that public museum collections, particularly animal collections, have had in the past and, more importantly, still have today. He will discuss why preserving means doubly knowing. And how today, museums are places where death is not preserved, but rather, above all, life is protected.

The exhibition, organized as part of the agreement between Stazione Rogers and the University of Trieste, will offer further meetings at Stazione Rogers until next fall to discover some treasures from the University libraries and works of art from the collection of the University Museum System.