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Mateureka, the Mateureka, Museum of Mathematics and Calculation of Pennabilli presents the history, tools, ideas and concepts of one of the most fascinating adventures of human thought: the mathematics.
From the difficulty and uniqueness of the proposal, Mateureka is not configurable as a traditional museum that merely exposes “pieces” or “objects”, although interesting.
It must attract, invoke to make the visitor reason especially through doing, experiment it, through the activities of laboratory; to value, as much as possible, the ludic and interactive aspect.
At the permanent exhibition of the basic ideas of mathematics and the most significant instruments of the calculation that occupy four floors of the most prestigious palace of Pennabilli, adjacent to the vegetable garden of the forgotten fruits of the poet Tonino Guerra, one must necessarily support an activity, also outside the Museum, of temporary exhibitions, meetings, debates, deepenings, etc., which become fundamental not only for the Museum but for the whole territory.
Through these cultural activities the Museum, slowly, becomes one of the primary engines of creation and diffusion of culture that contribute to make Pennabilli one of the most interesting, living, meaningful and propositive art cities of central Italy.
Without this cultural “gymnastic” the Museum would soon become like an athlete who does not train: first asphyptic, then ankylosed and finally useless.
The ability to make these projects is therefore “vital” for the Museum.