pictures to research Alzheimer’s at Milan Diocesan Museum

by Redazione , printed on 02/03/2026
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From March 3 to May 3, 2026, the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan is internet hosting “DON’T FORGET. The Sacra Famiglia Experience and Alzheimer’s Care,” a photographic exhibition exploring the illness and on a regular basis life on the Sacra Famiglia Foundation in Cesano Boscone.

From March 3 to May 3, 2026, the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan will host the exhibition DON’T FORGET. The Sacra Famiglia Experience and Alzheimer’s Care, a venture that investigates Alzheimer’s illness by way of pictures and every day life on the Sacra Famiglia Foundation in Cesano Boscone. The exhibition is a collaboration between two historic entities of the Ambrosian Diocese and is supported by Intesa Sanpaolo. Curated by Giovanna Calvenzi, the initiative presents sixty images by Enrico Zuppi (1909-1992), Gianni Berengo Gardin (1930-2025) and Marianna Sambiase.

The exhibition is split into three sections that develop following a thematic thread between reminiscence, care and on a regular basis life. The path begins with the work of Marianna Sambiase, an educator within the Alzheimer’s Unit of the RSA San Pietro of the Fondazione Sacra Famiglia. Her images don’t doc constructions or therapies, however concentrate on individuals: faces, fingers, gestures and small indicators of disorientation that reveal the persistence of a necessity for recognition. The photos turn into a software for regarding and lengthening sufferers’ identities, exhibiting the position of pictures as a mediation between care and notion of the opposite.

The second part affords a historic have a look at the Foundation by way of a collection of pictures by Enrico Zuppi relationship again to 1946. These images depict life at Holy Family within the early postwar years, when the establishment was taking in individuals with extreme disabilities, “incurables of the countryside,” battle victims and orphans. Zuppi, along with his direct language, creates portraits and scenes of collective life that convey common feelings.

The third part collects the pictures of Gianni Berengo Gardin, who was known as in 2011 to doc life within the Foundation. The photographer recounts the every day lifetime of the Home, therapeutic actions, college, moments of play and the relationships between friends and operators, utilizing black and white as a story software. His photos describe the ability and its operation with readability and participation, highlighting the connection between those that reside and work inside it with out slipping into the anecdotal or celebratory.

“The exhibition Don’t Forget,” says Monsignor Bruno Marinoni, Episcopal Vicar for Economic Affairs and President of Fondazione Sacra Famiglia, “is a project to mark the 130th anniversary of Fondazione Sacra Famiglia. The goal is to offer a delicate and unprecedented look at the complex issue of Alzheimer’s and dementia, emphasizing the value and mystery of human identity in the face of fragility. It is a message that we want to offer, with respect, to all of society: the person is precious in the eyes of God and mankind, even when he or she can no longer communicate with words. It is up to us to find ways to enter into a relationship with everyone, as our workers do every day and as anyone can learn to do, if they allow themselves to be questioned by this reality.”

“The Diocesan Museum,” emphasizes Nadia Righi, director of the Diocesan Museum, “is very attentive to the language of photography, an extraordinary tool for reading man and reality. The theme we are proposing on this occasion is particularly important for us: through the telling of the story and experience of the Holy Family, in fact, we get to reflect on today, to urge each visitor to look at the other, even the most defenseless, always emphasizing the mystery that inhabits every man.”

“From 1946 to today, the history of the Fondazione Sacra Famiglia passes through the gazes of three photographers,” saysGiovanna Calvenzi, curator of the exhibition, “who tell the story of care as a concrete, everyday gesture. From Enrico Zuppi’s humanist images, to Gianni Berengo Gardin’s rigorous narrative, to Marianna Sambiase’s immersive work in the RSA, photography becomes memory and relationship. Not just documentation, but presence: a gaze that shortens distances, restores dignity and transforms the image into a form of care.”

Don’t Forget: pictures to research Alzheimer’s at Milan Diocesan Museum

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