Civico Planetario Ulrico Hoepli

This guide to the Civico Planetario Ulrico Hoepli in Milan tells of custodian Venturi, who ran the planetarium from 1933 and made a quiet decision of his own when Milan came under threat of bombing in the war. It also traces the building's origin as a gift from bookseller Ulrico Hoepli, opened in 1930 and shaped by architect Piero Portaluppi into its octagonal drum seating three hundred beneath a false sky. Venturi and his family lived inside the building itself for forty years, in rooms now used as offices.