Let’s OPEN new perspectives on SCIENCE in 2025!

Open Science is changing the way we at the Hertziana think about our research and how we share it with a broader community. We are meeting the moment by embracing an accessible and outward-facing research culture. This is evident from numerous innovations and additions to our online exhibitions, photographic archives, videos, and digital publications. Are you an aficionado of rare books? Then we invite you to explore the HumanitiesConnect Digital Library that makes available a growing collection of rare books sourced from three Max Planck Institutes: the Hertziana, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, and the Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Or how about immersing yourself in the fascinating world of early modern science? The online exhibition Visualizing Science in Rare Books, curated by our Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, showcases historical images of scientific achievements drawn from the Hertziana’s own holdings. If you missed the exhibition The Allure of Rome. Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, fear not – it lives on in a virtual format that merges the famous views with Ugo Pinard’s map of the city from 1550. Maybe issues of social change and gender roles speak more to your heart? Now We Have Seen, the fourth instalment of our video series Hertziana Insights, focuses on Italian women artists in the 1970s. The documentary combines revealing interviews with engrossing historical footage to encourage viewers to reflect on how far the Italian art system has come – and how far it still has to go. Last but not least, we are proud to unveil Hertziana Studies in Art History. We launched this publication series with three volumes whose themes range from the conceptions of space encoded into Italia Illustrata (1474), a survey of Renaissance Italy compiled by the humanist Flavio Biondo, to the impact of artificial intelligence on visual arts. This is our first digital, open-access publication series – and a further step towards Open Science.

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