Adhesives

Houses, boats, aeroplanes and most of the things around us: what do they have in common? Take away adhesives and you won't be alble to join, build, invent.

A new interactive area dedicated to adhesives opened at the Museum as part of the Materials Department.

Historical objects, multimedia, audiovisuals, installations and interactive activities to discover past, present and future of the materials that hold the world together.

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Telegraph, telephone, television.

The Telecommunications Section has now three new interactive areas dedicated to telegraphs, telephones and televisions.

Historical objects, exhibits, anecdotes and stories lead the way to an understanding of three media that have changed our everyday life.

>A physical and metaphorical space for communication, where technologies meet and our desires and needs come together.

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LEONARDO

Discover Leonardo: more than 100 models, texts, images, exhibits.

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The Ideal City

Urban and architectonical studies for a more functional city

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Bridge channel

Leonardo studies with interest the canals in Milan

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Hydraulic saw

Leonardo studies and draws the technology of his time

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Parabolic bridge

A movable bridge for defence

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Air screw

An exceptional intuition on the potential of propellers

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Leonardo's gallery

Discover the core of the Museum: more then 30 machines created from the inventor's drawings.

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Leonardo's life

Find out what he did and where he went year by year.

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Studies and drawings

Some of the most interesting ideas from the over 6.000 folios by Leonardo's.

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Where are the manuscripts

Nowadays Leonardo's writings are divided in ten different codes.

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Virtual Leonardo

Visit the Museum in 3D and use Leonardo da Vinci's machines.

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Mechanic loom

Activate Leonardo's loom and find out how it works and how it was reconstructed.

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Ideal city

Walk inside a virtual reconstruction of the city designed by Leonardo.

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Leonardo Milan and water

Find out the complex and fascinating connection between Leonardo and the local waterways.

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HIGHLIGHTS

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How do helicopters fly?

Find out how a modern helicopter flies and moves in all directions and witch controls are used by pilots.

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Collage

Adhesives are hidden all over the place. Could you live without them? Pick an area and look carefully.

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Oil prêt-à-porter

How much oil do you have on you? Tell me what you are wearing and you'll find out.

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DEPARTMENTS

Telecommunications section

Discover the history of communicating at a distance, with Marconi's original apparatus.

© Mauro Fermariello / Archivio Museo

DNA demystified

In the interactive Genetics & Biotech i.lab we discover where DNA is found and we work with animal, plant and yeast cells.

Ebe Training Ship

Discover the schooner housed in the Air & Sea Transport Building – the largest sailing ship in Italy to be held inside a museum.

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS

ECSITE 2009

In 2009 the Museum will host the ECSITE Conference

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SMEC course

Next November the 5th edition of the European course in Munich

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SUPPORT THE MUSEUM

Events spaces

Organise conferences, corporate events, dinners, evenings on a theme

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