Arts and Science United
Discover the experience of three Italian museums temporarily converted into vaccination hubs
SanGiuseppe al Museo per vaccinazione Covid (2021-03-08)National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci
The Leonardo da Vinci National Science and Technology Museum
The Leonardo da Vinci National Science and Technology Museum in Milan is the largest science and technology museum in Italy, one of the most important in Europe and in the world. It renews itself and experiments with new languages .
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A collection dedicated to science
The exhibits and interactive laboratories are dedicated to energy, materials, communication, transport, nutrition and particle physics.
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It enhances the world's largest collection of machine models made from drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, but in the museum you are also allowed to board the Enrico Toti submarine and relive the emotion of sailors in navigation.
SanGiuseppe al Museo per vaccinazione Covid (2021-03-08)National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci
The museum as Vaccination Hub
In March 2021 the museum teamed up with the Ospedale San Giuseppe del Gruppo MultiMedica and was converted into a vaccination center with the aim of facilitating citizens' access to prevention, bringing it outside the traditional health centers.
Vaccinazione al Museo (2021-03) by Elena GalimbertiNational Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci
"The alliance between the Museum and the San Giuseppe Hospital for the administration of the Covid-19 vaccine takes place with a view to social solidarity and represents a significant part of our community pact with the territory and its citizens"
Fiorenzo Galli, General Director of the National Museum of Science and Technology.
Vaccinazione al Museo (2021-03) by Elena GalimbertiNational Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo Da Vinci
Not just logistics
"The value of vaccines fits fully into the role of our Museum, which has among its objectives that of promoting understanding of science and its applications for the entire community"
Fiorenzo Galli, General Director of the National Museum of Science and Technology.
Pirelli HangarBicocca Vaccination Hub, Milan (2021)Pirelli HangarBicocca
Pirelli HangarBicocca - The Foundation
Pirelli HangarBicocca is a non-profit foundation, established in 2004, created and entirely supported by Pirelli, which has converted a former industrial plant in Milan into an institution for producing and promoting contemporary art.
This dynamic center for experimentation and research covers 15,000 square meters, making it one of the largest contiguous exhibition spaces in Europe.
Pirelli HangarBicocca Vaccination Hub, Milan (2021)Pirelli HangarBicocca
It presents major solo shows every year by Italian and international artists, with each project conceived to work in close relation to the architecture of the complex, and explored in depth through a calendar of parallel events.
Pirelli HangarBicocca Vaccination Hub, Milan (2021)Pirelli HangarBicocca
Admission to the space and the shows is completely free of charge, and facilitators are on hand to help the public connect with the art. Since 2013, Vicente Todolí has been the foundation’s Artistic Director.
Pirelli HangarBicocca Vaccination Hub, Milan (2021)Pirelli HangarBicocca
The complex, which once housed a locomotive factory, includes an area for public services and educational activities, and three exhibition spaces whose original twentieth-century architectural features have been left clearly visible: Shed, Navate, and Cubo.
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As well as its exhibitions program and cultural events, Pirelli HangarBicocca also permanently houses one of Anselm Kiefer’s most important site-specific works, The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015, commissioned for the opening of Pirelli HangarBicocca.
Pirelli HangarBicocca Vaccination Hub, Milan (2021)Pirelli HangarBicocca
Pirelli HangarBicocca as Vaccination Hub
In the moment of urgency the spaces of the work The Seven Heavenly Palaces 2004-2015 by the artist Anselm Kiefer have been made available for vaccination. The vaccination hub managed by the Regional Government of Lombardy was operational from April 26 to October 25 2021.
View of the Royal Palace and Museum of Capodimonte (18th century)Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Capodimonte Museum boasts 47,000 works of art that form one of the largest and most complex collections of medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary art in the world.
Pathways within the Royal Park of Capodimonte (2018)Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Royal Park of Capodimonte, with its 300 acres and more than 400 plant species, is an unspoiled green space that overlooks the city and Gulf of Naples.
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Vaccination Hub, NaplesMuseo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The Vaccination Hub at the Fagianeria
Since 1st April 2021, Capodimonte has been hosting a vaccination hub with a very special waiting room.
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Vaccination Hub, NaplesMuseo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
"Let yourself be infected only by beauty"
That is why we have reproduced a room in the museum for the vaccinated who must wait 15 minutes after the administration of the vaccine. It is a way to dilute tension, to relax, and to enjoy the beauty of art that is associated with that of the Royal Bosco, to learn and function, and to understand that art is universal, it concerns everyone and speaks to everyone, transcending social differences.
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Vaccination Hub, Naples (2021)Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
The landscape in which the Fagianeria is immersed, with the fields of the Real Bosco and the masterpieces of the nearby Reggia, reminds us that the only thing we should not be afraid of is being infected with art and beauty, which have always been formidable tools for the care of the soul” says Director Sylvan Bellenger.
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte Vaccination Hub, NaplesMuseo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
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