Da
Vinci's visions come calling
New Aerospace Museum to showcase replicas painstakingly created
from Italian
master's drawings
By Edgar Sanchez - Bee Staff Writer
Fourteen months ago, the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau
received an intriguing phone call. The caller asked: Would... continue
Da Vinci's
Inventions On Display In Sacramento
by Cody Stark
(CBS13) SACRAMENTO From helicopters, to robots, to a calculator Leonardo
Da Vinci's inventions were way ahead of their time. Now at the aerospace
museum you can ... continue
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Palm Springs
Life, December 2006 –The Da Vinci Experience stimulates all the senses at
Palm Springs air Museum, which transformed a hangar into 15th century
Italy for the exhibition's U.S. debut. [It is] more enterainment and
educational, not curatorial. This exhibit's strength [is] in
the interactivity between the visitor and the machines [so that kids
and adults] can come to grips with how gears, [pulleys, and other devices
do their] work.
Westways, November/December
2006
“Five worth the drive. No. 2: The Da Vinci Experience. Visitors step
into an Italian-style piazza to enter the exhibition galleries, which highlight
a few dozen full-size and interactive machines…all based on Leonardo
da Vinci’s 15th-century drawings and notes.”
Palm Springs Life, October 2006
“Gaining an understanding of the thinking behind the famous artist whose
inventions out numbered his paintings is best accomplished not by reading his
16th century codices or going to a Ron Howard movie, but rather by looking
at his inventions. Perhaps the Da Vinci Experience will inspire more
creative minds.”
The Desert Sun, November 3, 2006
“The smell of burning wood wafting through the air. Fall-colored leaves
rustling under the footsteps of residents and tourists. A scene from 21st century
Palm Springs? For the next five months it sure will be. The Palm Springs Air
Museum has been transformed from a World War II aircraft showroom o a 15th-centruy
Tuscan street scene as working models of Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical
flight and military inventions go on display.”
www.artknowledgenews.com, Posted
November 3, 2006.
Experiencing Leonardo at the Palm Springs Air Museum. In the last few
years, the world has rediscovered Leonardo da Vinci through a major work
of popular fiction. But the reality of Leonardo’s life is that
even the best fiction could not convincingly portray his multifaceted
personality or full y document his achievements in the worlds of engineering,
design, art, aviation, and construction. The Da Vinci Experience will
be at the Palm Springs Air Museum from Nov. 3, 2006 to March 25, 2007.
Hemisphere Magazine-Novmber 2006
³See machines designed by Leonardo da Vinci and built by modern
artisans in Florence.
Image Magazine, September 2006
The Palm Springs Air Museum, which has one of the weorld's largest
collections of War II warplanes, rare and original combat
photography, memorabilia and uniforms of WWII, will host this stunning
international tribute to da Vinci's genius through March 24, 2007. It
has drawn raves.