Last updated on Apr 6, 2022 – 12:01 PM
(mi-lorenteggio.com) Milan 6 April 2022 – Saturday 9 April The National Museum of Science and Technology enriches its cultural offering by suggesting special activities with artist-in-residence Anders Lind, author of Lines of Action, designed especially for the museum.
Swedish artist Anders Lind meets adults and children to creatively explore the links between technology, art and science, through an interactive installation of sound art, where 3D pipes are transformed into lines running along wall, floor and ceiling and matched with sensors and electronics to create new musical instruments.
Swedish composer, Lind is Creative Director at Umeå University’s Department of Creative Studies. He writes music primarily for orchestras, choirs, ensembles, and soloists, often using electronic or interactive technology. His compositions are distinguished by an experimental approach that invites listeners to embark on an extraordinary musical journey.
His work Lines combines digital technologies with leading technical languages and was created in the context of Future Inventors, a dedicated STEM laboratory supported by the Rocca Foundation. With native content, tools, and languages such as interactive projections, audio arts, video and pixel maps, and creative algorithms, Future Inventors aims to develop an innovative approach to engage and excite children aged 11 to STEM and enrich the teaching of these topics. In school, using new teaching tools for teachers that go beyond the traditional distinction between science and art subjects.
On Saturday 9th April Anders Lind will be in the lab to present his Lines installation and try out the activity of the Smartphone Orchestra (11am and 2pm).
On Sunday, April 10, the Museum’s education staff will lead activities in the Future Inventors’ Lab.
Among other scheduled activities, museum visitors will be able to experience the space experience at the new Base Marte Laboratory, which recreates the Martian base as an innovative STEM experience scenario through an unprecedented live role-playing game. Designed specifically for kids ages 10-14, Base Marte is an immersive environment in which you put yourself in the shoes of an astronaut crew on a mission to the Red Planet to ensure the base’s survival. The lab is part of the national project STEM*Lab – Discovering Stimulating the Transmission of Emotions – selected by the social enterprise Con I Bambini as part of the Juvenile Education Poverty Contrast Fund and coordinated by the Kairs Consortium.
Also this weekend, the journey to science continues in interactive laboratories, where i.lab Biotechnology proposals take turns where plants, animals and microorganisms are observed from a microscope to discover their properties and the products of everyday life that can be found in them and those in the Tinkering Zone, where they can be found. For adults and children from eight years old create DIY pinball machines. For more adults, the YOU & AI digital zone will be open, a digital environment to improve dialogue and public participation on the topic of AI.
There are also free guided tours of the Children’s Department of Transportation and paid visits to the Leonardo Galleries, the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, and inside Enrico Totti’s submarine.
All laboratory activities, temporary exhibitions, and permanent exhibitions are included in the museum admission ticket.
Activities in laboratories
Free activities with reservations required when purchasing an entry ticket.
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Smartphone Orchestra – from 9 years old
Participants with Anders Lind will be able to discover his work Lines, an interactive audio art installation, to create an audio performance using their smartphones as if they were instruments for an orchestra. Led by the artist in the role of conductor of the orchestra, each participant will make their contribution to give life to a choral show.
Saturday 9 | 11 & 14 with artist Anders Lind
Sunday 10 | 14 and 16 with museum staff
Duration: 90 minutes
Interactive projections – from 9 years old
The education project of the National Museum of Science and Technology by Leonardo da Vinci and the Roca Foundation combines science, art and digital technology to give life to an alternative approach to STEM. Inside the Future Inventors interactive lab, adults and children will be able to discover how to interact with images using their own body movements. Through the artistic installation “Aesthetics of Collaboration”, participants will be able to discover the digital world in an unprecedented aesthetic dimension.
Saturday 9 | 4:00 pm with the museum staff
Sunday 10 | 11:30 am with museum staff
Duration 60 minutes
STEM * LAB BASE MARS
Mission to Mars Base – 10 years ago
The new Martian base of the museum, dedicated to Schiaparelli, is an original and innovative space that offers activities for both project participants and for the entire museum audience, who will be able to participate in a role-playing game. On a mission to the red planet, it will be possible to test yourself by crossing 5 different work areas where you can manage unforeseen situations and ensure the survival of the entire crew.
Saturday 9 | 15 hours
Sunday 10 | 15 hours
Duration 90 minutes
I. Laboratory Biotechnology
Eye on the Invisible – 8 years ago
Participants will be able to work with plants, animals and microorganisms, observe them under a microscope and investigate the shapes and sizes of their cells. They will be able to try how to use it to transform simple ingredients and get products we all know like bread and cheese.
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 | 10, 11.30, 14, 15.30, 17
Duration 45 minutes
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DIY Pinball Machine – from 8 years
In the space dedicated to fabrication, engineering and design, for an innovative educational approach based on creativity, the visitor will be able to build a marble path and lead it to the exit using gravity, flexibility and geometry.
Saturday 9 | 10, 11.30, 14, 15.30, 17
Sunday 10 | 10, 11.30, 14 and 15.30
Duration 45 minutes
Wind tubes – from 9 years
Participants will be able to play with air and wind inside the tube, attempt to fly objects of different materials and shapes, build objects to spin, and spin and stand to explore aerodynamics and its rules.
Sunday 10 | 10, 11.30, 14, 15.30, 17
Duration 45 minutes
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You and Artificial Intelligence – from 14 years old
A dedicated AI area where participants, under the guidance of a science animator, experience three AI scenarios for the near future thanks to immersive innovative technologies. The workshop track, which can accommodate up to 6 people, is divided into three different experiences, each dedicated to specific topics and can be used through dedicated hardware and software (3D rendering, virtual reality, mixed reality).
Participants will be able to hear the perspectives of different experts, try virtual apps to find a soul mate and improve their appearance, monitor crime and control reception camps through facial recognition.
Saturday 9 | 10, 12, 15 and 17 hours
Sunday 10 | 2 pm and 5 pm
Duration 60 minutes
Free guided tours
Free activities with reservations required when purchasing an entry ticket.
Once per trip – from 4 to 8 years
Visitors will be able to immerse themselves in stories of adventurous travels around the world and discover the most surprising means of transportation in our collection. Among wagons, steam locomotives, missiles and large ships, you travel imaginatively to unknown places and times.
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 | 12, 15 and 16 hours
Duration 45 minutes
Once Upon a Time Leonardo – from 4 to 8 years
The world’s largest exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci tells the little ones about their closeness to the master of genius and the artistic, scientific and technological topics developed by Leonardo.
Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 | 11 a.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m.
Duration 45 minutes
Guided tours for a fee
Gallery Leonardo da Vinci – from 9 years old
A science animator will lead visitors through the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. Over 1,300 square metres, 170 historical models, artwork, ancient volumes and installations tell the personality and work of Leonardo, an engineer, humanist, and nature investigator.
Sunday 10 | 2 pm and 4 pm
Duration 80 minutes
The cost is 10 euros plus the cost of the entrance ticket and both can be booked directly on the museum’s website
ENRICO TOTI SUBMARINE – From 6 years
Launched in 1967, the Toti was the first submarine built in Italy after World War II. His task was to patrol the waters of the Mediterranean to determine the passage of Soviet submarines. In 1997 he made his last trip and since 2005 he has been a guest of the museum. Visitors will be able to ride a toti to relive the feelings of the sailors while sailing.
every weekend | 10, 10.40, 11.20, 12.00, 12.40, 14, 14.40, 15.20, 16.00, 16.40, 17.20 and 18.
The cost is 20 euros, including the cost of the museum entrance ticket, and both can be booked directly on the museum’s website
Information for the public
National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci | Via San Vitor 21, 20123 Milan
Entry tickets
It is always recommended to buy online https://www.museoscienza.org/it/visitare/biglietti
Ticket price: €10.00 in full | Reduction of € 7.50 for children and young people from 3 to 26 years old; people over 65; groups of at least 10 people; Journalists making a personal visit upon presentation of a valid Journalists’ Application Card and filling in the accreditation form; public and non-governmental school teachers; 4.50€ for school groups accompanied by a teacher by reservation.
Free entry for: disabled visitors and their carers, children under 3 years old; Journalists reporting on the museum are pre-approved
Rules to counter the spread of Covid-19:
- According to the instructions of the authorities, from April 1, 2022, to get to the museum, it will not be necessary to show the green corridor at the entrance. For more information https://www.dgc.gov.it/web/
- At the entrance to the museum, visitors will have their body temperature measured, which should not exceed 37.5 degrees Celsius
- The use of a mask is mandatory while staying inside the museum