Project
Coordinator
Fondazione Museo Nazionale della Scienza
e della Tecnologia
"Leonardo
da Vinci",
IT
via
S. Vittore 21,
20123 Milano,
Italy
Tel: +39.02.48555.1
www.museoscienza.org
contact
persons:
1.
Salvatore
Sutera
(project coordinator)
tel. +39.02.48555.407,
fax 39.02.4801.0016
email sutera@museoscienza.org
2.
Maria
Xanthoudaki
email xanthoudaki@museoscienza.it
The
Museum of Science
and Tecnology
"Leonardo
da Vinci"
is a non-profit
organisation,
founded in 1953,
which hosts
a collection
of about 15.000
objects belonging
to a wide range
of national
and international
scientific domains
including astronomy,
cinema, clock-making,
radio and television
technology,
telecommunications,
music, acoustics,
design technology,
measurement
instruments,
metallurgy,
transportation,
etc. It also
includes the
Leonardo da
Vinci Gallery
that hosts models
of machines
designed by
the artist;
the original
training ship
‘Ebe’
used once by
the Navy, and
the commanding
bridge of the
transatlantic
ship ‘Biancamano’.
Each year the
museum is visited
by an average
of 300.000 visitors,
of which 150.000
are pupils of
primary and
secondary schools.
The
mission of the
museum is
the collection,
conservation
and enhancement
of scientific
objects and
the education
of the public
through display
and interpretation
of the collections
and organised
educational
services.
Educational
services aim
to the transmission
of knowledge
about scientific
culture in all
its expressions,
implications
and interactions
with other knowledge
domains of the
past, present
and future.
Such aims are
met through
the production
and distribution
of educational
materials, the
development
and realisation
of structured
educational
programmes and
workshops, and
the organisation
of public events.
Those
services,
offered since
the foundation
of the museum,
consist of:
organised visits
for primary
and secondary
schools with
the presence
of specialised
museum educators;
workshops, hands-on
activities and
training courses
for teachers.
The
richness and
variety
of the educational
programmes of
the museum make
education one
of its main
functions, whereas
the continuous
demand for services
calls for the
increase of
supply and the
organisation
of such programmes
and activities
as to cover
the needs and
priorites of
the schools
as well as possible.
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