Museo Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is known as one of the greatest and most significant thinkers in the history of mankind. He was a painter, sculptor, engineer, natural philosopher, architect and a very industrious inventor. The largest collection of his devices is in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in the heart of Florence. There, you can admire handcrafted Globes, microscopes, sextants, telescopes and much more to try out. Unlike in ordinary museums, touching is encouraged here! Admission to the museum costs 8 euros per person, and the opening hours can be found on the linked website below.

Website of the Museo Leonardo Da Vinci: https://www.museoleonardodavincifirenze.com/home.html

Photo: sketch of the human body by Leonardo da Vinci. Credits: Pixabay/WikiImages.

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Offshore wind farms off Esbjerg
The Horns Rev 1 to 3 offshore wind farms off the coast of Esbjerg constitute the largest wind farm in Northern Europe. Horns Rev 1 was the first offshore wind farm to be built in the North Sea. The wind farm is named after the sandbank, Horns Rev, on which the wind turbines were erected. […]
Ein hoher Turm mit Windmesser: Mitten in München steht das Deutsche Museum.Credit: Unsplash/Wolfgang Tröscher
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Deutsches Museum
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Deutsches Museum
The Deutsches Museum is no less than one of the largest science and technology museums in the world: around 100,000 objects from various technical and scientific fields are exhibited on Munich’s Museum Island. Currently, 40 exhibitions show the range: from astronomy to marine research, from nanotechnology to mining and the in-house Zeiss planetarium. The highlights […]
Ein riesieger Staudamm von oben. Foto: Sjoerd Bracke & Cuno de Bruin.
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Delta Works
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Delta Works
Although the Delta Works in the Netherlands are impressive, they are nevertheless literally an attraction of the ‘reserved’ kind. After all, the Delta Works form the world’s largest storm surge protection system. It was built by the Dutch government in response to a devastating flood disaster in 1953, in which almost 1,900 people and over […]
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Ocean sounds as a painting artwork
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Ocean sounds as a painting artwork
A creaking sound, a seismic air gun firing a shot and a whale appearing out of nowhere made from little spheres. All that people can experience when they watch and listen to the work of Tian Wu, Yu Ren and Sibiao Liu, a team of geoscientists and artists from Kiel in the North of Germany. Yu […]
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