Milan City of Science is the result of the work made by a group of scholars of historical, literary and scientific subjects belonging to many universities, laboratories, museums and archives, both state and private.

The main idea behind this website: science in the city

First thought up in 2006, on the occasion of the history exhibition Science, the City and Life which was organized for the hundredth anniversary of the International Exhibition of Sempione, this site, Milano City of Science, is dedicated to the social history of science and technology in search of a new approach through which to broaden, spread word of and study the scientific work in the city.
How does change come about for science and scientists within the context of urban industrialisation, with all the demands for technology that this produces, the need for services, for production, health and education? And then to what extent does the city itself depend on science and the scientific community that lives therein? Between the 1800s and 1900s Milan became a "laboratory city", which, on a par with London, Brussels and other European industrial centres, was no longer satisfied to simply have a university in the neighbourhood (Pavia University), and sought to try out new institutions and disciplines different to classical university science.
This site has two particular aims. In the first place, to serve as a memory tank, identifying and communicating via the web the various investigations underway and the patrimony of documents related to scientific research, their application and the politics of science in Milan and the surrounding region. Furthermore the site will be a meeting place: for the University, the museums and the city's scientific institutions, promoting contacts and the development of relationships among them; for historians (both Italian and foreign) of science and technology in the XIX and XX centuries, and aspire to serve as a link between these institutions, the scholars and the other fundamental participants in the cultural, scholastic and publishing worlds.