Temporary exhibitions

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The art of building a masterpiece: Trajan's Column
Leonardo and His Books: The Library of the Universal Genius
Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion
From Hell to the Empyrean. Dante's World between Science and Poetry
Leonardo da Vinci: Visions. Technological challenges of the Universal Genius
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Leonardo da Vinci e il moto perpetuo
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Florence, Museo Galileo (14.07.2023 – 15.10.2023)

The exhibition shows to the public over sixty Italian clocks, datable between the 15th and early 19th centuries—a significant nucleus of the Gian Carlo Del Vecchio’s collection

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Florence, MAD Murate Art District (10.05.2023 – 23.07.2023)

The exhibition, born from an original production commissioned by Museo Galileo and MAD Murate Art District, presents a site-specific installation around the theme of storage, symbol of preservation but also a space of material and immaterial memories, unknown and hidden from collective sight.

Archimedes: The Art and Science of Invention
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2022

The exhibition features the great man from Syracuse to the wider public and illustrates his extraordinary contribution to the growth of technical and scientific knowledge in Antiquity and through the centuries.

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The Eye of Science
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Firenze, Museo Stibbert and Pisa, Museo della Grafica (12.11.2022 – 26.02.2023)

The year 1839 marks the birth of photography and the beginning of the intimate and complex relationship between this new “instrument” and scientific practice.

Leonardo da Vinci e il moto perpetuo
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Torino, MAUTO – Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile (08.04.2022 – 25.09.2022)

The dream of autonomous movement, independent of human and animal energy, is as old as the history of mankind. Its first expressions are lost in antiquity and are reflected in art, poetry and literature.

Leonardo da Vinci e il moto perpetuo
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Florence, Palazzo Pitti (14.12.2021 – 29.05.2022)

Taking its cue from Galileo’s academic lectures on the measurement and site of Dante’s Inferno the exhibition will frame Dante’s scientific skills in the culture of his time.

Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion
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Florence, Museo Galileo (10.10.2019 – 12.01.2020)

Can one have perpetual motion? The search for the perfect machine, which would work with total efficiency and be self-sufficient ad infinitum, occupied natural philosophers and engineers from the Middle Ages onwards.

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Montepulciano, Fortezza (25.05.2019 – 08.09.2019)

In 1502 and 1503 Leonardo da Vinci traveled across Tuscany, drawing up splendid hydrological maps...

Leonardo e i suoi libri. La biblioteca del Genio Universale
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Firenze, Boboli Gardens, Limonaia Grande 21.06.2019 – 06.10.2019)

Trajan’s Column was inaugurated in 113 AD. It is an engineering feat of incredible complexity which bears witness to the heights attained by Roman civilization in the art of building.

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