May 2, 2008
For Immediate Release
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The Da Vinci Experience, an international traveling exhibit based on the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, will be featured at UVSC’s Woodbury Art Museum at the University Mall May 9 through Oct. 4. The exhibit consists of working mechanical models based on the drawings found in Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks. The models are being assembled by the exhibit’s international managing partner, Luigi Rizzo, from Florence, Italy, through May 8 - exactly to scale and proportion of Da Vinci’s sketches and originals. Those attending the exhibit will have to opportunity to fidget, fiddle, build and explore 11 replicas of Da Vinci’s devices and ingenious creativity.
Guests at The Da Vinci Experience will see replicas of some of Da Vinci’s greatest paintings, including “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper,” and will be surrounded by scale models of transportation, military and mechanical devices developed from drawings and notes left by Da Vinci, who lived from 1452 to 1519. Featured inventions include an airscrew - a forerunner for the modern helicopter, a hang glider with a rudder-like tail, a one-person “helicopter” with two sets of rotor blades and a life preserver that would enable people to float in water.
The exhibit will open to the public May 9 at 11 a.m. The museum will offer free entry for all teachers showing credentials on May 9 and 10.
“The exhibit provides a wonderful opportunity to explore the ingenuity and creativity of one of the World’s greatest artists and inventors,” said Marcus Vincent, director of the Woodbury Art Museum. “It’s amazing to see the machines and to celebrate the life of a genius who was possessed with such insatiable curiosity.”
Admission will be $14 for adults, $11 for seniors 65 and up and $6 for students with ID, active military and their family members and children 5-18. Family group rates are available for immediate family for $28. Children 5 and under are free. Group rates are offered with a minimum of 15 in a group, $3 per person for student groups, $4 per person for youth groups and $7 per person for adult groups.
The Woodbury Art Museum is located on the second floor of the University Mall in Orem in the southeast corner just west of Nordstroms. The exhibit runs from May 9-October 4. The exhibit is open Monday from 12 to 9 p.m. and Tuesday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday the exhibit is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
For more information on the exhibit, visit www.uvu.edu/museum/.
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