MUSEO DELLA SCIENZA E DELLA TECNOLOGIA DA VINCI
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Museum that preserves several models that reconstitute some of Leonardo's inventions.
Milan could not forget its vocation as the capital of industry and technology, an ancient tradition. The city has therefore rightly dedicated this museum to Leonardo da Vinci, a brilliant engineer, scientist and inhabitant of the city for 20 years. Housed in a former 16th-century Olivetan monastery, on the first floor in the Galleria Leonardo, the museum houses several models that reconstruct, based on original drawings, some of Leonardo's most daring inventions, such as the hand presses, lifting cranes and the legendary flying machine (which never flew). Outside is the Railway Pavilion, the façade of which is a reconstruction of a station dating from the end of the 19th century and housing a collection spanning 100 years of railway history. Also worth mentioning is the Naval-Air Pavilion, whose "Air Transport" collection preserves airplanes, from the first models to jet airplanes, and the "Naval Transport" collection with a number of suggestive pieces, including the Brigantine schooner Ebe from 1921. Finally, the submarine Enrico Toti (1968) can be visited, the first Italian submarine built after the Second World War. Numerous varied and dynamic exhibitions complete the scientific part, such as for example on the fragility and beauty of the planet, on space, on maritime and rail transport or on energy and plastic...
