Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

The founder’s vision was to provide Italy a museum, on par with other major European countries, with a museum that would narrate the changing world through an exploration of the different facets of culture as a whole.

The Museum was inaugurated with a large exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s birth, and it has carried his name ever since. Leonardo was, and remains, the quintessential symbol of the continuity between the arts and science & technology, two different but complementary expressions of human creativity.

The Museum prioritises designing and developing cultural and educational resources and experiences to help improve the well-being of communities and foster engaged, knowledgeable and inclusive citizenship. An inherent part of the Museum’s nature is to offer experiences that invite visitors to explore the relationship between science, technology and society, to learn about processes and methods and to reflect on ethics and scientific facts.

It is a place for critical thinking about our present, for mediation in the philosophical sense, a place open to interplay between different types of knowledge and different players. The Museum is known for its ability to pass on to future generations the legacy of the past and present, with the firm belief that culture must be a dominant force in social, economic and civil development.