In this room the visitor encounters the “butterfly lays the golden eggs”: the silkworm. In the exhibition are addressed: the historical aspect, with special consideration to the city of Bergamo, and the phases of the development cycle starting from the egg to reach the cocoon, from cocoon to the wire, from wire to silk.
Another innovation of this exhibition is that, for the first time in the experimental stage, is introduced in the halls of our museum the breeding of silkworms. This activity is implemented exclusively in the summer and will be realized thanks to the collaboration of the visitors who want to join the project “the museum are too” and help us with its direct involvement in the care of the larvae.
The Naturalistic Education team has prepared specific initiatives for schools that provide the breeding of this species and the reeling of the precious thread in a process that ranges between natural history and human history and its productive activities.
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