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The History of Science Museum has produced, within the European Project World View Network – Cultura 2000, A Brand New Sky (Il cielo nuovo), an experiment in communicating the history of science through narrative, with the goal of conveying the fundamental elements of the first Galilean astronomical discoveries and the cultural climate in which they took place.
During the presentation, aimed at small groups of Museum visitors, a narrator, in the costume of a skilled glass artisan, Loon, retraces the pivotal moments of the first observations of Galileo with the telescope: the surface of the moon, the stars of the Milky Way and the satellites of Jupiter, with reference to the scientist's substantial contribution to the debunking of the "Aristotelian-Ptolemaic" model of the universe and its substitution by a model constructed on the basis of new data and criteria.
 Guided by the figure of the artisan, the story re-evokes the sentiments of wonder, curiosity, admiration and disbelief aroused in all of Europe by the publication of the Galileo's observational results in Sidereus Nuncius in March, 1610.
The narrative journey of A Brand New Sky was designed for a broad public and it is especially suitable for students beginning from the second year of secondary school.
A document with notes on the text and the project is available for download (above right link).
Project and Coordination by: Silvana Barbacci
Text and Artistic Direction by: Tommaso Correale Santacroce
Narration under the care of: Filippo Plancher
Artistic and organizational guidance: Mirco Artuso
Graphics: Monica Tassi
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