Obscura Day in Turin, Italy

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Grand Tour of the Nautilus Collection of Antique Scientific...

Grand Tour of the Nautilus Collection of Antique Scientific Instruments & Old Oddities

Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (GMT+0100)

Turin, Italy


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On March 20th Join the Atlas Obscura on a tour of Nautilus in Turin, Italy. With the tag line "Antique Scientific Instruments and Old Oddities" Nautilus feels more like an 18th century wunderkammer than a modern-day shop. According to writer David Sederis "The greatest shop in the world is in Turin, Italy. It’s called Nautilus"

Established in 2005, Nautilus tries to be a modern “wunderkammer”, where antique science and natural history meet, inspiring “wonder”. We mainly specialise in antique scientific and medical instruments, but our interest extends to unusual or rare technologies and natural history.

On Obscura Day the shop owners will give a guided tour of the shop, telling histories about main pieces of the collections and some facts about where and how we found them: the mummy arm, the 2-headed calfs, the anatomical specimen, the electroshock machine, ect.


DETAILS AND DIRECTIONS

There will be two tours at 3pm and 4pm each accomodating 20 people. The tours will last about an hour each, and cover the history and origin of the shops most interesting items.

The shop is in Turin (Italy), in via Bellezia 15, ih the historical centre of the city. Nearby and worth visiting  are the Anatomical Museum and the recently opened, "Museo Lombroso", of Criminal Anthropology

www.thenautilus.it 

tel. +39 3395342312


ABOUT OBSCURA DAY

Obscura Day is an international celebration of unusual places taking place around the world on March 20, 2010. It is sponsored by Atlas Obscura, a guide to the world's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. To find out more about the Atlas and Obscura Day, or to find out how you can host an event in your city, visit ObscuraDay.com, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

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