In December 2021 Eugenio Lanzetta is in Florence, at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum, a few steps from the Duomo. The museum displays the machines reconstructed from Leonardo's codices, the result of the work of Gabriele Niccolai and his family: full-size wooden models, from the armoured car to the aerial screw, from cranes to boats, which can be observed at close range and in many cases operated.
Niccolai leads the visit room by room, as far as the workshop where the reconstructions are made and new digital tools are tested. It is the key meeting: here the idea takes shape of bringing to China a museum devoted to Leonardo, built on the Florentine exhibition model and on its collection.
That day marks the start of a long journey, made of planning, institutional relations and agreements, which will lead to the agreement signed in Rome in 2025 for the Leonardo da Vinci Museum Sanya, and to the presentation of the museum in Florence itself, in 2026.
In 2015, during Expo: Leonardo tells the Last Supper →
In 2025, in Rome: the agreement for the Sanya museum →
