Muse

Museum of Science

A museum continuously changing: this is the identity concept of MUSE, the modern science museum of Trento, designed by Renzo Piano and inaugurated in 2013.

MUSE is the first museum harmoniously combining nature, science and technology, without neglecting the ethical and social issues of everyday life. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the visitor can discover several temporary exhibitions and innovative projects about different current issues as, for example, sustainable development and environmental friendliness.

MUSE is a museum to be explored, in order to discover the natural phenomena of the world we live in and to confront with the challenges of contemporary society. A place where to experiment and learn but also have fun.

Not to be missed:

- the tropical greenhouse: a 600 square meters surface which reproduces the rainforest of Tanzania. Entering the greenhouse, visitors are immediately surrounded by the typical tropical humid heat, walking through a luxuriant forest close to an evocative waterfall.

- the Maxi Ooh!: a place dedicated to children, where they can touch, smell, see, look and hear. Maxi Ooh! becomes colored and moves, displaying thoughts, actions and gesture of whom is inside.

- the biggest dinosaurs exhibition in the Alps: numerous fossils lead the visitor on a travel through time, from the appearance of the first molecules, to the evolution of dinosaurs and mammals, following the common thread of our existence.

Indirizzo

Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza, 3 - 38122 Trento

Email

museinfo@muse.it

Telefono

0461 270311

Indirizzo web

http://www.muse.it

Informazioni

Useful information for disabled peolple:

The Museum is equipped with an underground car park with 8 sections reserved to disabled people; and there are 2 other reserved sections along the street, which are distant approx. 500 metres. The external areas are accessible; the building is divided in two different areas that are connected by a boardwalk on the second floor. All the floors of the building are reachable and all the rooms are accessible by two lifts of equal dimensions. The internal trail in the tropical greenhouse, with its most gradient of 9.8%, has a flat stop over a panoramic view on the first floor. The area of the offices is reachable by an other lift. The disabled toilets are situated on the second floor and on the others ahead. The front door is large 176 cm (handle along its length, necessary force for the opening 3 kg). The lift to the underground car park (door 126 cm, dimensions 109×139 cm, external button panel 118 cm and internal one132 cm, braille). Lifts to the expository rooms (door 90 cm, dimensions 157×255 cm, external and internal button panel 107 cm). Lift to the offices (door 80 cm, dimensions 119×139 cm, external button panel 118 cm and internal one 132 cm, braille). Disabled toiets (door 90 cm, dimensions 189×273, wc with a cavity of height 49 cm and a grip on the juxtaposed side).

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