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Educational activities of Leonardo Museum


  • Leonardo's gaze
    Educational workshop on Leonardo the artist, scientist and engineer
    Description:
    This workshop suggests stepping into the shoes of Leonardo, who was at the same time an artist, a scientist and an engineer, and to relive his approach to life, and the wonder and interest that everything around him awoke in him.
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  • Leonardo's machines
    Educational workshop with visit to the mechanics section
    Description:
    Children are at the centre of a hands-on experience of taking apart and reconstructing wooden models of some of the most significant technological solutions thought out by Leonardo and other Renaissance figures.
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  • Leonardo's codices
    Guided tour of the Leonardo Library
    Description:
    In over five thousand pages of notes, Leonardo recorded his thoughts, experiments and designs, but also personal anecdotes,oddments and reflections made throughout the course of his life.
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  • Leonardo Painter
    Educational workshop on Leonardo artist
    Description:

    "Therefore you painter, when you make mountains, always make the lower parts lighter from hill to hill than the higher parts...". This is how Leonardo explained to future artists how to faithfully represent the natural world in painting: woods, streams, land and mountains must be accurately reproduced in the colours and dimensions of things in the distance, in the thickness of the atmosphere and the blue of the air.

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  • Apprendisti in bottega
    Laboratorio sul disegno anatomico di Leonardo
    Description:
    A fascinating space between scientific laboratory and artist's studio, Leonardo's workshop welcomed numerous apprentices ready to absorb the great master's precepts and replicate his drawings.
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  • Following Leonardo's example
    Workshop on drawing techniques
    Description:

    How was work done in Leonardo's workshop? What was the working method followed by his many pupils? The children discover this by experimenting with the practice of copying drawings.

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  • The dream of flight
    Educational flying machine workshop
    Description:
    The activity, designed for younger children, has as its theme the air and the flight of birds.
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  • Leonardo's world
    Animated visit to the Museo Leonardiano
    Description:
    Who was Leonardo? What were his thoughts, his great passions? A journey back in time to get to know the world of this great all-round ingenious artist through the machines on display at the Museo Leonardiano.
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  • Leonardo and the anatomy
    Educational workshop with visit to the anatomy section
    Description:

    “Neccessaria cosa è al pittore per essere buon membrificatore nell'attitudine e gesti che far si possono per i nudi, di sapere la notomia de' nervi, ossi, muscoli e lacerti  [...]"

     

    This is Leonardo’s way to explain to future painters how to accurately represent human body in painting, through the direct observation and the practice of dissect. 

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  • Drawing and painting in perspective
    Animated visit to the educational section LEONARDO AND HIS PAINTING
    Description:
    For Leonardo, painting, like science, is capable of representing the 'truth' of the world around us.
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  • Reverse writing
    Educational workshop on Leonardo's codices
    Description:

    “Scrivese ancora alla rovescia e mancina che non si possono legere se non con spechio”. 


    This is how Luca Pacioli describes the particular writing of his friend Leonardo, a writing from right to left tipical of who uses the left hand. With this unique handwriting Leonardo filled his journals with his thoughts, researches, projects but also personal facts and curiosity of an entire lifetime. 

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  • Leonardo e la meccanica
    Visita animata al Museo Leonardiano
    Description:
    The approach Leonardo uses to study mechanics is original. He analyses in detail the individual mechanisms and gears that make up the machines. The worm screw, the toothed wheel, the pulley, the lever become for him the protagonists of an ideal treatise to investigate the potential of each device.
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  • Con un battito d'ali
    Laboratorio didattico sul volo
    Description:
     Leonardo had always dreamed of being able to fly ever since he was a child. He watched as birds opened their wings and soared through the air performing endless acrobatics. But which birds caught the great scientist's attention? The children find out by listening to their sounds and looking at some drawings from the Codex on the Flight of Birds.
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  • Representing the human body
    Visit and study of the anatomy section of the Museum
    Description:
    After a visit to the anatomy section documenting Leonardo's studies of the human body, the participants tackle the subject of the iconographic representation of the human body in the Renaissance.
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  • A forgotten trunk
    Animated visit to Leonardo's Birthplace
    Description:
    Even today, the house in Anchiano, which belonged to the da Vinci family for more than a century and where tradition has it that Leonardo was born, is the place that, more than any other, tells us about Leonardo's bond with his homeland.
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  • As water, so is the air
    Workshop on the swirling movements of natural elements
    Description:
    Water was the subject of numerous observations by Leonardo. The scientist studied its properties, power and movements and came up with a brilliant intuition: water and air are similar!
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  • Un' esperienza leonardiana direttamente via web!
    Description:
    Il Museo Leonardiano entra virtualmente nelle classi con i LABORATORI ON LINE: esperienze di apprendimento coinvolgenti e interattive che fanno uso di materiali multimediali: immagini, video e animazioni 3D

    Mediante la piattaforma Google Meet la classe si collega in diretta con l’operatore per lo svolgimento dell’attività. I ragazzi lavorano in tempo reale con un KIT appositamente realizzato e inviato alla scuola al momento della prenotazione. L’offerta è differenziata per la scuola primaria e per le scuole secondarie di primo e secondo grado.
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  • Leonardo da Vinci scientist and engeneer.
    Guided visit of the Leonardo Museum
    Description:
    The Museum route starts in Palazzina Uzielli, with the exhibition sections devoted to building-site machinery, textile manufacturing machinery, mechanical clocks and continues on the first floor with the section dedicated to Leonardo's studies on the human body and to that reserved for mechanical elements that Leonardo studied with a approach very similar to the one he adopted to understand the functioning of the human body.
    The models on show are accompanied by a pictorial history taken from paintings and manuscripts of the time, while animated digital reconstructions and interactive applications help the visitor to better understand how they work. 
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  • The origin of the Genius.
    Guided tour of the house in Anchiano where Leonardo was born
    Description:
    Surrounded by the Montalbano hundred-year-old olive trees, in a landscape suspended in time, still very similar to the one Leonardo knew, Leonardo’s house in Anchiano is the symbol of the close relationship he had with his hometown. In this coutryhouse, still displaying the original coat of arms of the Da Vinci family, Leonardo was born on April 15th, 1452, love child of Ser Piero da Vinci and Caterina.
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  • Vinci, Leonardo's home town.
    Guided tour around the historic centre of Vinci
    Description:
    The visit starts from the original nucleus of the settlement, the Conti Guidi Castle, where still today one can easily distinguish its walled enclosure and tall central tower without any openings, and within the walls the two main buildings which were built later, east and north of the tower.
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  • Walking in Leonardo's footsteps.
    Guided tour to the house in Anchiano where he was born via a walk along the ‘strada verde’ (green route)
    Description:
    Between Anchiano and Vinci  there is an old path called ‘the green route’ which winds its way for about 2 km through the wonderful Tuscan countryside, amidst the terraces of olive trees typical of the  Montalbano hills, and which can be walked at a completely relaxed pace in about 30 minutes.
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