Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology
Former monastery turned science hall, home to a full Cold War submarine hauled overland into a landlocked city.
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This guide to the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan follows the Enrico Toti, a retired Italian Cold War submarine, on its strange overland journey into a landlocked city. You'll hear about her nineteen sixty-five launch and years patrolling unseen waters, then the multi-year effort to bring her from the port of Augusta up the Po river toward Milan. It traces what workers had to cut away and strip down before a convoy could even attempt the final crawl through the city's streets.
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