Città della Scienza

Museum Naples, Italy

The City of Science is an initiative to promote and disseminate science which takes place in Naples, within a structure made up of an interactive scientific museum. The old Science Center was destroyed in a fire on March 4, 2013 but was reopened the following month with exhibitions in some spaces of the complex. In the meantime, the museum of the human body and the Planetarium are open to the public.

The museum was built by a public-private foundation called "Fondazione IDIS" in 1985–1996. Città della Scienza grew to become one of the most visited museums of Naples and actually is included into the list of “NGOs in official relation” with UNESCO. The previous Science Centre has been destroyed during a fire arson on 4 March 2013. The science area for kids was the first to be rebuilt and it is actually open to public. Being de facto destroyed and almost nonfunctioning, Città della Scienza foundation communicates with public thanks to Facebook, its website and Derev (for crowdfunding). Various initiatives (either public and private) were created to collect funding to rebuild completely the whole museum. In April a part of Science Center has been reopened to public.