The Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" is the largest science and technology museum in Italy, and is dedicated to Italian painter and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci. It was opened on 5 February 1953, inaugurated by Prime Minister of Italy, Alcide De Gasperi.
This museum, in the ancient monastery of San Vittore al Corpo of Milan, is divided in seven main departments:
- Materials
- Transport
- Energy
- Communication
- Leonardo Da Vinci, Art & Science
- New Frontiers
- Science for young people
All this departments have also some laboratories especially for children and young students. The Transport section in made by four different parts: air, rail, water and Submarine Enrico Toti-S-506.
Read more about Museo Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia "Leonardo Da Vinci": Materials Section, Transports Section, Energy Section, Communication Section, Leonardo Da Vinci, Art & Science Section, Gallery, Ess Also
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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“Life well spent is long.”
—Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)