The Museum of Science and Technology of Milan

A lot of history about the National Museum of Science and Technology
The building that currently lodges the Museum of Science and Technology, and devoted to Leomardo da Vinci, it was center of a convent of Olivetani monks dating back to century XVI. Abandoned in Napoleonic epoch, for the modern use after a long period of abandonment and for the damages suffered of the second world war on purpose it has been restructured and inaugurated in 1953, .
Rests of ancient walls and graves of the Roman epoch, are visible in the cloisters and in some points of building's basement.

Visiting the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan
If you are in Milan, a visit to this museum it is obliged, above all if you are young or parents with own children.
On a surface of 40.000 square meters, the product of the scientific and technological talent of the man is present in every epoch.
The principal attraction is the permanent exhibition devoted to Leonardo, which a whole gallery is assigned where 30 model of machineries, planned by Leonardo are exposed, spacing from those civil to those military, from the studies on materials to the architecture, with the model of the ideal city.
Panels reproducing works and clipboard related to anatomy, to physic studies , machinery and hydraulic engineering are situated on the walls.
A series of room are devoted to various disciplines as:
clockmaking, radio and telecommunications, electricity, sound and acoustics, musical instruments, astronomy where in these rooms it's possible to assist to some experiments of physical and technique importance.
The other inside sections of museum are devoted to the:
transport by land, photo cinematography, graphic arts, weaving, energy's production from industrial revolution to today, metallurgy and processing of the metals and goldsmith art.
For guys, but in reality also for adults, different interactive laboratories are active, where is possible to develop practical activity under the supervision and guide of a scientific animator.
Outside of museum it is possible to visit:
The railway pavilion that accurately reproduces a railway station of end '800 where different vapor locomotives and electric locomotives are exposed with illustrated the technologies used railway field as the laying of the binaries, the tunnels, the bridges, the system of signal, the railway switches, the telegraph between the stations and as other.
The air-sea pavilion, realized in 1968, the theme of the maritime and aerial navigation both civilian how military is introduced. Relics of ancient war ships and some maritime assault boats and airplanes employees in the two world conflicts are present here. In the collection there are prestigious pieces what the school ship Ebe, a sailing ship in wood launched in 1921 and given to the museum by the Marina Militare Italian, a section of the cruise ship Count Biancamano including the command bridge and a passengers room , occasionally employee for museum activities, and the submarine Enrico Toti, given also it by the Marina Militare Italian.
The external garden where some didactic installations are present where in the summer period recreational and educational activites are organized for children.