Già Museo di Informatica e Storia del Calcolo, Mateureka revisits the tools, ideas, and concepts related to the history of calculation and mathematics, starting from the first objects used by the Sumerians and Egyptians for accounting operations, up to modern computers. The exhibition path develops over the four floors of the ancient town hall of Pennabilli. The visits are enriched by the periodic setting up of temporary exhibitions. Following a chronological order, on the first floor numerous materials and explanatory panels illustrate the path traveled by man in the world of mathematics. Among the exhibited objects: Sumerian tablets dating back to around 2500 BC, Roman tombstones and Etruscan inscriptions, abacuses, Chinese suan pan, Japanese soroban, Russian schoty, Inca quipus, and Peruvian chimpus, Luca Pacioli’s summa, astrolabes, the Aztec calendar, Napier’s cylinders and rods. The next floor is dedicated to calculators and accounting systems, while some mathematical concepts such as Pi or the Pythagorean theorem are reproduced and can be experimented with, in the rooms of the third floor and in the various educational rooms of the museum. The last section explores the world of computer science and computers.
Information about Mateureka Museum of Calculation
Piazza Garibaldi, 1,
Pennabilli (Rimini)
0541928659
info@mateureka.it
Source: MIBACT
