Leonardo Da Vinci Interactive Museum

Leonardo Da Vinci Interactive Museum in Via dei Servi is one of the two museums in Florence dedicated to the most iconic Renaissance man that has ever lived. On the second parallel street to Via Cavour to your right (east) as you ascend (north) located in Via dei Servi 66, the road that connects Piazza Duomo to Piazza della Santissima Annunziata lies the Leonardo da Vinci Interactive Museum where you can find 40 full-size machines, built following Leonardo’s drawings.

War Machines, Civil Engineering Machines and Flying Machines: Leonardo’s ideas today fascinate the researchers. To give you all the information you want, each Machine is accompanied by explanatory texts translated into 6 different languages and the whole room is enriched with multimedia setups.

Another room is dedicated to his famous paintings, the most precious and recognized paintings in the world, where the reproductions of the Last Supper, the Jubilee and the Annunciation lie: His works, characterized by an extraordinary harmonic composition and a mystery solo, have had enormous influence on subsequent generations of artists.

His paintings live like a game of mirrors, in a sanctuary of paradox: they depict not only physical appearances but, for the first time, intrigues, feelings and moods. During his life, Leonardo wrote and drew thousands of pages of notes on the human body. He wanted to understand how it was made and how it worked…muscles, tendons, skeleton, heart, arms and other organs.

In the anatomy room, you can watch the screening of a video mapping anatomical studies onto a model of the human body, in order to understand how prospective was discovered, and rediscover classical sculpture and the development of new painting techniques. More