Going south of the city, taking via della Misericordia, you arrive at the Geolab, the Laboratory Museum of Earth Sciences. The building, former Hospital for the Infirmi Poveri since 1852 and former Church of Mercy since 1635, the year of its foundation, houses the Museum created by the Municipality of San Gemini and opened to the public in 1999. It is a permanent exhibition space dedicated to the Earth Sciences. A place designed to tell how our planet is made and how it works, how Umbria was born and what are the mechanisms that underlie its evolution. At the Geolab it is forbidden not to touch: more than a museum, almost a laboratory, the Geolab houses a series of interactive machines that guide the visitor in observation and scientific experimentation. The visit winds through five rooms, along a route which, like a sort of progressive zoom, accompanies the visitor from the discovery of the s tructure of the Earth, to the reading of the landscape and the main geological emergencies of Umbria. The presentation video made by Piero Angela introduces the main topics. The first room opens with the discovery, thanks to a special lens, of the division of the Earth into large plates. You then enter the center of the Earth, to see what the interior of our planet is like. In the second room the visitor, with the help of an interactive model, discovers how mountain ranges were born, why earthquakes occur and where volcanoes are formed. The third room brings us to the geodynamic events of the Mediterranean area and of Italy. The fourth room is dedicated to the birth of Umbria, to fossils and to the microscopic examination of the secrets of rocks. In the fifth room you can learn about the main phenomena and places of geological interest in Umbria. The Geolab is a great adventure, an environment full of stimuli and emotions where you actively participate through original and fun experiments in the upstairs laboratory.

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