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The DaVinci Experience

Jan 31, 09 thru Jan 3, 10

While Leonardo da Vinci’s genius as an artist is renowned, a new exhibition at the San Diego Air & Space Museum reveals how his conceptual designs for many technological wonders we take for granted today were centuries ahead of their time.

For the past 50 years a group of Florentine artisans have poured over da Vinci’s notes and drawings in an attempt to faithfully create replicas of his many inventions, relying solely on materials that were available in 15^th-century Italy. The result is over two dozen fully-functional models, 11 of which are full-sized, and an internationally touring exhibition that allows the public to experience da Vinci’s pioneering designs in operation for the very first time.

Arranged into three categories—transportation, military, and mechanical—the interactive models in The Da Vinci Experience are each displayed with a facsimile of the relevant da Vinci drawing. In addition, reproductions of 12 of da Vinci’s most famous paintings in the exhibition show how, for a Renaissance artist, the arts and sciences were intricately connected. Da Vinci’s drive for perfection compelled him to carefully observe, dissect, and catalogue the world around him, and his mechanical designs represent an important facet of his passion to not only figure out how things worked, but how to make them work better.

San Diego Air & Space Museum

	Hours: Daily 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. last admission 4:00pm SUMMER HOURS through Labor Day: Daily 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (last admission 5:00 p.m.)
	Contact: (619) 234-8291 http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org				Directions: Map to Park Location 25