Hwæt! The Vercelli Book Saga is the first videogame of the MTD Foundation . Part of the God save the nerd! Project Augmented reality at #mtdvercelli supported by Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, Cassa di Risparmio di Torino Foundation, Cassa di Risparmio di Vercelli Foundation, Deutsche Bank. A serious game developed thanks to the collaboration with the Institute for Didactic Technologies - CNR, Palermo and Bepart of Milan. Seeing is believing: the game can be downloaded for free from the stores for IOS and Android, but it is not set in the Museum, let alone in the Capitular Library. This fact, ironically, distinguishes it from the gamification experiences that are gaining ground in Italy and is its strong point. Through Hwæt! we have opened the doors to a new way of making culture and spreading it, illuminating the heritage of the Library without creating a notional tool and bound by the activities in the presence.

Undisputed star of Hwæt! it is Eve , a heroine of another time who, starting from the convent of Wilton, makes a journey full of riddles, pitfalls, trials to overcome. At the same time Eve and the player himself will make a metaphorical journey, of introspection for Eve and training for the player who will have indirectly acquired a cultural baggage originated from the stimuli of the Vercelli Book. The exhibition therefore aims to promote the game by leading the visitor into parallel multiverses, among the works of the Museo del Tesoro del Duomo, the original drawings at the base of the Hwæt! and the path undertaken by the Foundation towards an enlarged, accessible and fully shared digital enhancement with users.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on 18 June 2022 by the special event The Bishop , the Warrior and the Witch . RPG at the Cathedral Treasury Museum. A role-playing game dedicated to players between the ages of 14 and 99, organized in collaboration with the Stanza dei Sogni association in Vercelli. The appointment, by reservation, is at 3.30 pm, at a cost of € 5 per participant. The appointments to deepen the Vercelli Book will continue, with three special visits. In the first appointment we will talk about Friedrich Blume, the one who gave away the myth of the Vercelli Book. In fact, this year the 200 years from the definitive geographical and linguistic location of the Vercelli Book by the German jurist occur. We will talk about it on Saturday 25 June at 4 pm with a visit to The Vercelli Book Saga. The rediscovery, coming up to the news of the last few months. July 9 will be the moment of mystery: The Vercelli Book Saga . The secrets, always at 4 pm in the Capitular Library. Same place and time for the last appointment The Vercelli Book Saga. The cultural multiverses, Saturday 23 July, dedicated to the past and present of the manuscript, both coexisting and linked together in the video game Hwæt! .