Istituto
Nazionale di AstroFisica
ISTITUTO DI RADIOASTRONOMIA
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OUTREACH
“M. Ceccarelli” Visitors’ Center
The
Visitor Center
of the Istituto di Radioastronomia is hosted
in a building of the LA.C.ME.
Agriculture Cooperative situated near the Medicina
radio telescopes.
The structure receives the growing flux of school
children and adults visiting the Medicina Radio Astronomy
Station and, with time, it turned out to be a popular
addition to scholastic programs in Italy.
The
building was formerly a rice warehouse, built in the
early 1900's, and it was renovated in 2005 to host a
restaurant on the ground floor and the
400 sq-meters of halls of the Visitor Center on the first
floor.
The Center
has a lecture hall with 98 seats, and also a 2D and 3D
movie projection system on 3 screens, for a "full immersion"
experience. The adjacent hall hosts
a permanent exhibition on the research activities of the
Institute, and interactive exhibits and video stations with
scientific apparatus from radio telescopes. The entire
ensemble is designed for a varied audience, and it is meant to
illustrate the basis of modern astrophysics and of research
techniques with particular respect to the study of the
non-visible radio waves, thus entertaining and
personally involving the public. The Visitor Center is open
every Sunday (except holidays) to the general public, who
can visit the center either by self-guiding or by taking
advantage of the guided tours that include a 3D short movie
presentation and a tour of the radiotelescopes grounds. The
visits of schools and groups (of at
least 15 people) are by reservation only.
THE
NORTHERN CROSS
An
introduction to the largest Italian Radiotelescope (
/Medicinaweb/Nc/ )
UNIVERSO
2000
Open
House: March 2000 Edition ( /visitorc/settimana2000/poster1_indice.htm
)
KIDSLINK
First
project for the Bologna schools to use Internet (
kidslink.bo.cnr.it
)
SCUOLAN
Networks
for the schools in Open Source (in It.) ( www.scuolan.it
)