The World Biotech Tour (WBT) is a multi-year initiative visiting science centres all over the world to bring biotechnology to life. By involving students, teachers, science-centre professionals and the general public in hands-on activities and discussions about key issues pertaining to biotechnology, the WBT will demonstrate the relevance, excitement and wonder of biotechnology in a fun and exciting way. This year in Milan the Museum will be an opportunity for the public to investigate various fields of biotechnology: from bioremediation to biotechnology for agriculture, to applications in the medical field and for biocompatible materials.

 

Saturday, October 1, 2016 (as part of Meet Me Tonight – at Indro Montanelli Public gardens)

Free entry

#Biotech | 11:00am to 10:00pm | Recommended age: +8

What are biotechnologies? How do they influence our lives? With the Museum of Science and Technology and the young World Biotech Tour ambassadors, come and test and experience how living organisms can help us obtain different useful products.

 

Sunday, October 2, 2016

The Museum | admission included in the Museum ticket

Biotech party DIY

From 11:00am to 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to 5:00pm | drop in | i.lab i.lab Genetics and Biotechnology | Recommended age: +8

Meet the young ambassadors of the World Biotech Tour to get to know plants that consume less water, bacteria that make plastic or eat oil, cells that repair hearts. See what our cells look like and take a Cellfie.

Biotech exploration

At 11:00am, 2:00pm and 4:00pm | duration 1 hour | Recommended age: +8

Let’s go hunting for biotechnology in the Museum’s sections to discover the secrets of biotechnology around us.

PTC test: de gustibus ...

At 11:00am, 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to 5:00pm | drop in | Recommended age: +8

Even taste is a matter of genes. Come and find out more about yourself with Biogen Italy volunteers.

 

Sectors: Healthcare, agricultural & industrial biotech

Registration: not required

Location: Milano – Museo Nazionale delle Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” – Via San Vittore 21

In collaboration with: Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo da Vinci” e Fondazione Biogen