MUSEO DEL PATRIMONIO INDUSTRIALE

(FORNACE GALOTTI)
On the ground floor
The Hoffmann oven, the heart of the production for brick firing, presents, in its external
portico, a documentation related to the history of the former kiln and to brick manufacturing
cycle and the packaging section of Bologna. Inside the kiln, you can visit the area: 'Learning
How to Design and Build Machines', with the history of technical education and technological
progress of Bologna between 1800s and 1900s.

On the first floor

The "From Excellence to Future" hall, was realized to explain the link/connection between
the development of technology, innovation and the economic and productive area of
Bologna The hall is divided into three areas: "Inside the Economy of Bologna", "The Senses
of Machines", "The Rooms of Excellence", and it contains all the new information, studies
and researches about the economy of Bologna and of the global market system. Examples,
exhibits and filmed sequences will explain the last applications of technological researches.
Moreover, here you can find the teaching laboratories for schools, divided into sections with
specific tools for experiences, experiments and observations of scientific issues such as the
energy sources (water, vapour, electricity), the chemical structure and composition of some
elements (water and air), the Sun System and the silk production process.

From 12 October 2013 Museum of the Industrial Heritage has a new section dedicated to
astronomy. The careful and spectacular setting up of L'Officina delle Stelle will enable
visitors to look out onto the Universe through the huge window of a diorama representing
the Solar System. On show precious 'telluri' for educational purposes too, made by
Sebastiano Zavaglia in 1854-55.

On the second floor

The exhibition reconstructs the profile of the city's long industrial history through a series of
thematic cores:

- Bologna of silk and water in the XV-XVIII centuries, when the city was the world leader of
the silk production thanks to the hydraulic energy (artificial hydraulic system) and the high
technology of the Bologna silk mills. Relieves, large machinery models (silk mill), video and
interactive structures, a multivision for slides reconstruct the productive organization of the
XV-XVIII centuries;

- Bologna of the mechanical culture of the beginning of the Twentieth century, diffused in
little workshops and sustained by technical competences of professional quality ;

- the productive sectors of the modern industrial district like the motor design and
manufacture, the Biomedical sector and above all the sector of automated packaging
machines manufacturers, represented through restored real machinery, biographies of
companies, technicians, planners, oral witnessing of the protagonists, social and economic
documentation of the development model realized.