From Wednesday, March 18 to Saturday, April 18, 2026, the Pisan Philatelic Numismatic Iconographic Circle, in collaboration with the Municipality of Pisa, is organizing the historical exhibition "150 Years of Telephony" curated by Marcello Cecconi.
The exhibition will be held at Pavilion C1 Galilean Citadel.
Opening Hours: 9am-1pm and 3.30-7pm
FREE ENTRY
Inauguration: Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 11 a.m. with a postmark.
As part of the exhibition, a series of talks with industry experts has been organised. Three events, scheduled between late March and mid-April, will take the public on an in-depth journey exploring the evolution of telecommunications, featuring contributions from industry experts.
The series of lectures begins on Saturday 28 March at 11am with the talk ‘Pisa: where the future is born’, given by Filippo Giannetti, associate professor of Telecommunications Engineering. It continues on Thursday 2 April at 11 am with “The transformation of telecommunications: from packet-switched networks to networked artificial intelligence”, led by Stefano Giordano, full professor of Telecommunications Engineering. Also at 11 am, the final event takes place on Saturday 18 April, on the exhibition’s closing day, with the lecture “The evolution towards modern telecommunications: fibre optics, 5G, artificial intelligence, the cloud, cybersecurity and the Internet of Things”. The speaker will be engineer Alessandro Bettini, a telecommunications expert and former Tim executive.
