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Da Vinci Interactive Museum

Museum featuring reproductions of Leonardo's masterpieces, with a focus on interactivity.

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What makes it special

Inventions

The museum features fully functional, life-sized mechanisms crafted from Leonardo's sketches.

Digitized paintings

High-resolution reproductions of his paintings allow you to see details that you might otherwise miss in art museums.

Other digitized works

Around 300 digitized drawings, including anatomical sketches and manuscripts, are on display in rotation.

Cool bookshop

The shop offers a wide selection of books for both children and adults, miniature models to build and other gadgets.

Da Vinci Interactive Museum : The entrance to the interactive museum faces Campo San Rocco

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Your experience here

  • Get hands-on with Leonardo's mechanical inventions.
  • Be inspired by his sophisticated genius.
  • See incredible details in the digitized masterpieces.

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Book tickets online

Secure your spot and dodge the queues by booking your skip-the-line tickets today.

Leonardo's unusual handwriting

The manuscripts on display are handwritten backwards, from right to left, in what is called 'mirror writing'.

Since Leonardo wrote with his left hand, this was probably easier for him.

Which Leonardo museum to visit?

Venice has two museums dedicated to Da Vinci — the other is in San Barnaba.

Ideally, visit both! They each highlight different sides of Da Vinci’s genius.

Okay, so it has to be just one, you say?

Both are highly interactive and cost the same to enter.

Go for this one if you prefer a more structured museum experience — complete with digitized paintings, and overall a more modern setup.

Choose San Barnaba instead if you’re intrigued by a museum set in a former church and prefer a more informal layout — an open space packed with a huge number of contraptions.

San Barnaba : Ingenious waterworks and war machines

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