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Milan Game Week, Science Museum presents a digital escape room

The National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan participates for the first time in Milan Games Week to release a preview of M4RT3! Online escape room.

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Dedicated to Mars and astronomy and created in collaboration with INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera and with visual design and development sponsored by Marimento, M4RT3! It is a narrative journey between science and science fiction, following the famous astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli to discover the mysteries of the Red Planet. The player will be able to discover the true story of Schiaparelli, director of the Brera Astronomical Observatory in Milan, when he discovered the continents and seas on the night of August 23, 1877, pointing the telescope that observes the sky towards Mars. , islands, canals, polar caps and to fantasize about the existence of intelligent beings, Mars. A cooperative game whose goal is to uncover a mystery that seems to threaten Earth, solve ten puzzles based on archival documents and real information, analyze the real content of the Mars 2020 mission on the NASA website and images coming directly from the European Space Agency. explore mysterious virtual locations, conduct research on the Internet, and conduct Investigations are driven by a spirit of observation and logical deduction.

Debut at Milan Games Week

Celebrating the release of M4RT3! , the museum makes its debut at Milan Games Week, recreating the atmosphere of a dark room containing a real fragment of a Martian meteorite from the Planetary Science Museum ParSeC Foundation – Parco delle Scienze e della Culture. Hundreds of millions of years ago, as a result of a great cataclysm, parts of the surface of Mars were separated from the planet. Some of them fell to Earth after wandering around the solar system: the represented part arrived on our planet about 60 thousand years ago and was discovered in 1999 by the Italian antiquities collector Giorgio Tomilleri in the region of the Libyan desert called Dar Al- Gianni.

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