The Museum for Families

The Museum is a great place to spend a fun-packed, exciting day while learning together, for adults and children alike.
At weekends, experiments and performances in the interactive laboratories let you experience hands-on science: build robots, make soap bubbles, do colour experiments or discover the collections through theatrical activities. Throughout the week you can attend concerts or take part in special events and festivals.

Meetings

Discussing, keeping up to date and debating on scientific and technological themes which are part of our everyday lives

On The Shoulders Of The Giants

This project aims to create dialogue and debate with leaders in scientific research and technological development in order to explore cutting-edge science and understand its close relationship to everyday life.
30th March 2009| Keeping a cool head at a time of global warming
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mermaid figurehead on the Ebe schooner’s large bow

Make Up Your Mind

The Museum engages in dialogue with its community members, scientists, associations and companies interested in current scientific themes. Experiments are carried out in the interactive labs while the emerging questions are brought to discussion meetings with experts.
Sara Calcagnini | T +39 02 48 555 322 | calcagnini@museoscienza.it

Theatre And Performing Arts

Using different artistic forms for creative contamination and for exploring the collections in an unusual and exciting way

Theater in the Museum

Theatrical performances and visits to the exhibition areas, brought to life by the people who have taken part in the history of science, live shows for the younger visitors, performances which encourage adults to take part in scientific debate. Awe and entertainment are the tools to discover and interpret our historical heritage.
T +39 02 48 555 558 | didattica@museoscienza.it

Performances

To tell the story of its collections, the Museum devises and produces performances in which different forms of artistic expression, such as dance, music, video and theatre merge and contaminate one another revealing new and striking dimensions of science and technology. In collaboration with Scala Theatre Academy School of Dance, the performances “Cinquecentosei” (2006) and “Luminare Minus” (2007) were produced and presented to the public.

Outreach and Summer Camps

Encountering the Museum outside its walls or during the summer

Outreach

The Museum brings interactive experimental activities to the community through outreach programmes. Travelling with the Science Van, the Museum’s educational activities can reach schools, parks, public squares, public festivals and events. Using experimental activities, tools and materials, our explainers involve the public recreating the atmosphere of our labs wherever you want.
Marika Fiore | T +39 02 48 555 356 | fuorimuseo@museoscienza.it | Camilla Rossi-Linnemann | T +39 02 48 555 326

Summer Camps

During the summer period we offer young people weekly campus activities in which they can explore the Museum from a different point if view. Participants are involved in adventures inspired by two famous tales: “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” and “Alice in Wonderland”. Engaging in fascinating atmospheres and the scientific suggestions of the two scenarios, children have the opportunity to take part in thematic games, experiment in the interactive laboratories and explore the historic collections of the Museum. On the last day adults can also be involved in the children’s adventures in an unusual and amusing way.
T +39 02 48 555 558 | didattica@museoscienza.it

Contemporary Exhibition, Art and Artists

Experimenting new languages, putting art and science on show

Remember? Cool memories at the Museum

The memorable mysterious or familiar histories of unique objects and the stories behind-the-scene of the Museum staff make up the contents of this exhibition.

Leonardo Da Vinci
Nature, art and science

This travelling exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci was designed by the Museum and will be hosted in Korea between 2009 and 2011. The first destination will be the city of Incheon, in the context of the project Milan Design City at Incheon Fair, promoted by Fiera Milano and in collaboration with the City of Milan.
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