Sky and Earth Museum and Planetarium

It was created to explore the relationships between heaven and earth, stars and animals, the sun and plants, without forgetting humankind and its use of resources and technology. Comprising several sections, the museum’s most fascinating feature is the Planetarium: it features a domed screen ceiling with a diameter of 9.1 metres (one of the largest in Italy), onto which a special projector displays around 1,500 “stars”, offering a truly spectacular view of the sky. The complex allows for various virtual observations: bright stars up to the fourth magnitude, views of the sky from the North Pole to the equator, the precession of the equinoxes, the phases of the Moon, the Sun’s path through the zodiacal constellations, the positions of the planets, and so on. Thanks to a link with the telescope at the adjacent astronomical observatory, real celestial objects can also be observed on the planetarium’s screen. On the first floor of the planetarium, there is a mineral collection which includes one of Italy’s most important meteorite collections, with specimens from all over the world. The Museum of the Sky and the Earth was founded in 2000 for the purposes of conservation, research, education and public outreach in the fields of history and the natural and exact sciences. It is the leading scientific institution in the Bologna metropolitan area.

Viale Baciadonne, 1, 40017 San Giovanni in Persiceto, Bologna

Tickets: full price €6 / concessions €4 (under 14s) / free for 0–3-year-olds. Concessionary admission is available to holders of the Card Cultura.