Activities and Laboratories 2009-2010

Area:	Educational department
Start:	1 November 2009
End:	1 June 2010
Description:	In November 2009, the Institute and Museum of the History of Science started the 2009-2010 educational activities. From November 8, 2009 to May 9, 2010 the IMSS will offer the interactive visit "elettrizzanti esperienze" (Electrifying Experiences) to both educational and non-school groups, as part of the exhibition "Firenze Scienza - La Fisica a Firenze nell'Ottocento: Macchine e modelli da utilizzare" (Firenze Scienza - Physics in Florence in the 19th century: Instruments and Machines for use). Visits are available in Italian and English, through advance reservations (0039 055 2346760). Special visits for visually impaired visitors are also available in either English or Italian. The experience allows some replicas of the instruments displayed in the exhibition to be handled and touched. Such experience, as well as the museum entrance, is free of charge for the visually impaired and is available through advance reservations (0039 055 2346760). Four special laboratories, developed in cooperation with the Disney Channel on the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy, will involve Italian schools. Pupils can learn more about the Moon and have fun at the same time. Such laboratories are available, through advance reservations (055 2346760), from November 9, 2009 to June 2010. Children may also take part in two workshops, which will be held every Tuesday from December 2009 to March 2010 in the laboratories rooms of the museum. This project entitled "La bottega di Galileo tra musica e matematica" (Galileo's workshop between music and mathematics) is in Italian and is destined for seven to ten-year-old students. The workshops are organized in cooperation with the association Liberenote and are available through advance reservations at 0039 055 4362562. As part of the exhibition "La Moda e la Scienza nella Firenze di Pietro Leopoldo" (Science and Fashion during the Age of Peter Leopold), conceived by the IMSS and the Oblate Library, two free workshops will be held in the Sezione Ragazzi of the Library on dressmaking techniques and their relationship with the scientific development in the Age of Enlightenment. The workshops are available to schools and the general public through advance reservations at 0039 055 2616512.
Link:	www.imss.fi.it/espo/index.html

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