At MUSME, the temporary exhibition Stories of HEART and COURAGE leads into the lives of scientists, doctors, and surgeons who have dedicated their expertise, experience, and responsibility to the service of science, choosing to push beyond the “known” to explore the unknown.

Here, courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to face it when something greater is at stake: it is the intellectual courage to challenge theories considered unchangeable, and that of action, necessary to take steps never attempted before. Two inseparable dimensions, especially in the medical and surgical field, where every choice requires awareness, caution, and vision.

From the discovery of blood circulation by William Harvey to the first heart transplant in Italy, performed in Padua in 1985 by Vincenzo Gallucci, these stories recount how “heart” and “courage”, also connected by a common root, are expressions of a profound, human, and responsible choice, capable of crossing the boundary.

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