Contiamo l'Italia, contiamo per il futuro

In the Sala Fontana, a hundred years of Italy runs around you on a continuous circular ribbon of twelve projections. The installation is called "I dati della nostra storia", and it tells the country's social, economic and environmental changes since 1926 as ten themed stories built from Istat's data.

The IstatLine is a large three-dimensional timeline wall that pairs the statistics office's milestones with the country's, from its founding to artificial intelligence and big data, with films and QR codes that include content in Italian Sign Language. The backlit panels are in two languages, and interactive stations turn the data into games. Istat runs the census, so your nonna is somewhere in these hundred years of numbers.

This is the statistics office's own centenary show, so expect an institution telling its story rather than an art exhibition. Entry is free through the side door at Via Milano 13, Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 20:00, with last entry at 19:00. It closes on 2 December.