{"id":5021,"date":"2015-01-03T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T15:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.italygreentravel.com\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2015-01-19T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T08:04:12","slug":"muse-trento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/muse-trento\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature, Science and Ecology, in MUSE-o"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trento<\/strong> scent of hot mulled wine and hot chocolate. Arrived in the big park in front of the MUSE<\/strong>, I can not look away from his powerful mountains. In the background the woods, rocks, and a breathtaking waterfall.<\/p>\n

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The wonderful mountains around the MUSE, Trento, ph. by Silvia Ombellini<\/div><\/div>\n

The kids are already playing with wooden toys that remind me of those playgrounds of northern Europe.\u00a0We raise our bicycles<\/strong> and ride slowly through wooden paths, water lines, bridges and sculptures … in a moment we are at the entrance of MUSE, the Science Museum of Trento<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Cycling with children to the\u00a0MUSE, the Science Museum of Trento, ph. by Silvia Ombellini<\/div><\/div>\n

Every corner of the Museum manages to surprise and excite the children<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

A dinosaur footprint<\/strong>, the glacier in the Alps with real snow, a tropical greenhouse with waterfalls, a forest for interactive play, a fakir bed to lie on.<\/p>\n

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Experiments inside the MUSE, Trento, ph. by Silvia Ombellini<\/div><\/div>\n

We really enjoyed it, and we found at least 3\u00a0good reasons to visit the MUSE, even with kids:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. An eco-sustainable Museum Mountain<\/h2>\n

You enter into a “mountain” museum. The ecological architecture\u00a0grows upwards like the Alps, with five floors above ground, two below, and a central light well.<\/p>\n

The italian designer, Renzo Piano<\/strong>, has used several techniques to minimize the environmental impact of the museum, such as photovoltaic panels, brise soeil, or greenhouse that accumulates heat and distributes it inside the museum, and boasts the prestigious American LEED environmental certification.<\/p>\n

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The MUSE greenhouse, with rocks, waterfalls and tropical plants, ph. by Michela Simoncini, via flickr<\/div><\/div>\n

2. Nature by touching<\/h2>\n

You can touch the ice, you can cross a tropical forest. You can follow the footsteps of animals drawn on the floor, and you can\u00a0meet a wolf or a giant bear.<\/p>\n

Inside the touch screens\u00a0nature becomes a game: birds that we must help to migrate\u00a0from northern Europe to Africa, or fish that we need to save using the various possibilities that the sea offers them.<\/p>\n

For kids\u00a0there is also an artificial forest, and many spaces to live immersive experiences.<\/p>\n

Fun fact: there is also a bed with nails when you can experiment a bedtime like a\u00a0fakir!<\/p>\n\n\t\t