Museums and Muses.
Museums are responsible for the universal heritage of humankind.
They intrigue us, educate us, they let us muse.
In its Greek form, mouseion, it meant “seat of the Muses” and designated a philosophical institution or a place of contemplation. The word was later latinized by the Romans into museum.
Their purpose is to collect, preserve, interpret, display.
A museum acts as an information centre for its audience.
An entertaining and enlightening way to spend a few hours.
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- Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci → the largest scientific and technological museum in Italy and one of the four majors in Europe, together with the Science Museum of London, das Deutsches Museum in Munich and Universcience of Paris.
- Natural History Museum → you can admire the amazing biodiversity of our planet. Focus on mineralogy, palaeontology, zoology and natural human history.
- Mudec Museum of Cultures → it is dedicated to the interdisciplinary research on the world cultures.
- The Planetarium → it is the largest in the country, it was inaugurated in 1930 and named after Ulrico Hoepli, renowned publisher who commissioned and then donated it to the city.
- The Astronomical Observatory of Brera and the Schiaparelli’s Dome → What does the astronomer do? You will find ways to understand the wonders of this science. The treatise Sidereus Nuncius, Starry Messenger, started one of the most important scientific revolutions in the history of humankind.
- Palazzo Morando → Milan’s very own history museum. The sumptuous 16th-century building takes you back in time and you can get a feel for what it was it like to walk along the Naviglio when el barchett, the ferry, sailed its waters.
- I Tesori della Ca’ Granda → is one of the oldest hospitals in Italy, founded by Duke Francesco Sforza in 1456. The portraits of the donors of the Policlinico of Milan are displayed together with collections of surgical instruments that have made the history of medicine.
- The unique museum Mangini Bonomi → a curious place dedicated to the daily life of our ancestors. You learn conquests of the civilization of the past, that the patina of time and the frenzy of today’s life is submerging and often erasing.
The minimum duration for each private guided tour is 3 hours.