Thank you for your kind invitation! Grazie! I am working on my plan to visit Italy and hope to be there "soon".

The forum readers may or may not know that modern Homo Sapiens, outside of Africa, have 1-4% of their genome from Homo Neanderthalensis, with the average European at 2.7%.

From the 23andme (genetic testing) site:

Neanderthals were a group of humans who lived in Europe and Western Asia. They are the closest evolutionary relatives of modern humans, but they went extinct about 30,000 years ago. The first Neanderthals arrived in Europe as early as 600,000 to 350,000 years ago. Neanderthals Ñ Homo neanderthalensis Ñ and modern humans Ñ Homo sapiens Ñ lived along side each other for thousands of years. Genetic evidence suggest that they interbred and although Neanderthals disappeared about 30,000 years ago, traces of their DNA Ñ between 1 percent and 4 percent Ñ are found in all modern humans outside of Africa.

This is a beautiful artistic rendering and I'm sure the bead exhibit will be fascinating!