Is located in the heart of the city, very close to Brunelleschi’s dome of the main Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore. At the entrance, you will find the new bookshop, with a variety of interesting books, including our catalog cured by Carlo Pedretti and a wide assortment of gadgets. Visiting the exhibition hall you can discover the world, the life, and the works of the universally recognized as worldwide Genius, whose secrets are still not yet completely revealed.Here you can also test the functioning of his most important projects and designs. You will admire inventions of an extraordinary visual impact, operating and life-size machines, such as the ” war machines ” with the great tank, or the “civil engineering machines” such as the Brunelleschi’s crane and the “flying machines“: you will then walk back through the ambitious dream of Leonardo’s life: the flight.In addition to his engineering projects you’ll find in a unique exhibition space, the reproductions of his most important paintings, including the Last Supper, the Mona Lisa and the Annunciation. A great opportunity to admire them all together and to compare them! The rooms of the museum are enriched with multimedia displays which will help you in understanding the functioning of the machines and making your visit even more enjoying.
An exhibition dedicated to the universal genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, in the heart of Florence and with different traveling all over the world, the Museum of Leonardo da Vinci offers each visitor a unique experience where the sensory perception and knowledge of “Leonardo” marry, giving visitors the sensation to be immersed in a history of extraordinary relevance. A point of reference for visitors as educational, a tool cognitive complete, the museum Leonardo da Vinci in Florence contains the actual machine codes drawn from Leonardo. An impressive and unusual work, executed with detail by the staff of the WMA World wide Museum Activities that have worked to achieve real machines, all running, large and made of special cases: The machines, which can never be defined only “models” are made entirely of wood and this has required the commitment of both sophisticated technology is of particular human skills. The museum is an exhibition cur well-studied in great detail where the interactivity of the machines plays key role. This exhibit allows children to operate the rotating crane model as well as other models of Da Vinci’s inventions
THE FIVE SECTIONS OF THE MUSEUM MECHANISMS
From Leonardo’s codexes the machine showing the principles: motion tranformation, loking system, flyweel, worm screw, ball bearer, eccentric cam, etc.
Earth
Many interactive machines: the printig machines, the revolving crane, the oil press, the automaton, the rolling mill, the odometer, the theatrical machine, the fantastic animal, etc.
Water
Still very modern and in use today are the machines ispired to water: the hydraulic saw, the Archimedean scew, the water floats, the webbed glove.
Air
In this section: Leonardo’s parachute, the hornithopters, the wing trial, the anemometer, and anemoscope, the hygrometer, the comedy bird, etc.
Fire
Artillery machines were ispired by the Atlantic Codex. Among these the mortar fire and the machine gun. In this section: the armured tank, unique in the whole for its dimensions and fully interactive.
