From January 23 to March 15, 2026 Beyond Limits. SportItalia. A choral portrait of a changing country: a project that, through the sports participation of Italians, tells the great social, cultural, and economic changes of the twentieth century and the transformations that continue in the present.
The exhibition is conceived and produced by M9 - Museum of the '900 at the impetus of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in collaboration with the Italian Society of Sports History, the Italian Touring Club, Home Movies - National Archive of Family Film, Istituto Luce, and ANSA Archive. On the occasion of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games Milan Cortina 2026, and within the framework of the Cultural Olympiad, M9 also brings this narrative to Mestre, following a path that has already touched representative venues and Italian Cultural Institutes.
The exhibition intertwines memory and future through six thematic nuclei, independent yet connected: Twentieth Century, where the spread of sports accompanies the transition from rural Italy to post-industrial Italy, amid well-being, cities, and leisure; Women!, which follows the entry of women into public spaces and sports, encountering obstacles, stereotypes, and new challenges of inclusion; Journeys, which narrates mobility, Italian communities abroad, and sports as a field of relationships; In Corpore Sano, focusing on the public role of sports, spanning education, health, and welfare; Superhumans, where technology and medicine redefine protection, performance, and the very idea of limits; Love, an affective journey into fandom and collective rituals, from stands to "sports bars," from myths to popular habits.
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