Webuild inaugurates “Evolutio”: an immersive exhibition at Rome’s Ara Pacis, opening October 8, dedicated to the infrastructure that transformed Italy.

Webuild also inaugurates its first Digital Museum of Infrastructure, bringing to life a cultural project that highlights the strategic and cultural value of public works.
 

Key Highlights

  • The Exhibition is a temporary immersive narrative that explains how major public works have transformed Italy and the world, accompanied by photographs, video stories, and multimedia and interactive installations 

  • Presented the Digital Museum, a platform that showcases hundreds of Webuild projects based on a cultural heritage of over 1.5 million photographs and videos from the Group’s multimedia archive

  • Bridges, railways, dams, subways, and much more presented as masterpieces of engineering and art

What would Italy be without its infrastructure? Without the dams that brought water and electricity to homes and industries, the subways that transformed cities, the railways that brought communities, people, and stories closer together? From this question comes EVOLUTIO, the cultural and educational project by Webuild, designed to share in an immersive and accessible way the strategic and cultural value of infrastructure built by the Group.

Open to the public from October 8 to November 9 at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, EVOLUTIO is an immersive multimedia exhibition conceived by Webuild that spans more than a century of Italy’s socio-economic transformation, showing how the country evolved from an agricultural society to an industrial power thanks also to its infrastructure. The narrative extends beyond Italy’s borders, highlighting iconic works such as the second Panama Canal, the suspension bridges of Turkey, major dams in Africa, subways in Rome, Milan, Naples, Paris, Doha, and Riyadh.

The exhibition, designed and organised by Webuild and promoted by Roma Capitale, the Department of Culture, and the capital’s Superintendency for cultural heritage, is divided into thematic areas dedicated to energy, water, transport, urban construction, and building techniques. In each room, progressing by decade, visitors are guided by videos, images, and texts that tell the story of the public works and the historical context in which they were created. Two interpretative keys are offered: “The Days: How People Lived”, which provides a snapshot of everyday life across the decades; and “Italy’s Journey: The Works”, which illustrates the evolution of some types of infrastructure—dams, bridges, roads, and more—as engines of progress with a high impact on improving people’s lives. The concept draws inspiration from Hesiod’s classical work “Works and Days.”

On the occasion of the exhibition’s inauguration, Webuild also presents EVOLUTIO, the first dedicated to infrastructure, EVOLUTIO.MUSEO, a digital platform that showcases and enhances more than 400 projects by the Group organised into artistic hubs, with photographs selected from the Group’s multimedia archive, which contains more than 1.5 million photos and digital videos. Each infrastructure built by Webuild is presented within the historical and economic context in which it was built, highlighting the positive impact on people’s lives, offering an educational and engaging experience for a broad audience.

The EVOLUTIO project is part of Webuild’s Cultural Agenda, a broader initiative that reflects the Group’s long-standing commitment to promoting awareness of the infrastructure sector and its impact on communities. For Webuild, culture is a collective heritage and a tool for cohesion between communities and people – something to protect and develop. The Cultural Agenda reflects this vision, merging engineering, art, and community through initiatives – often carried out in collaboration with prestigious partners – that range from creating infrastructure as meeting places to promoting publications, events, and urban installations, including symphonic concerts and public art projects. It’s a continuous dialogue between innovation and beauty that engages people and local communities.
 
With over 95,000 employees working – directly and indirectly – on its projects in more than 50 countries, Webuild is one of the leading global players in the infrastructure sector. In Italy, the Group is building some of the most strategic public works for sustainable mobility and the country’s ecological transition, collaborating with over thousands of companies in the national supply chain. This industrial ecosystem enhances skills, innovation, and execution capabilities, contributing to the country’s growth, competitiveness, and the global recognition of its excellence.

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