ECONOMIAMO

Economiamo, let’s save: earn and save, donate and invest, economy has never been that fun!” is a new exhibition on economic education,

made by the Children’s Museum in collaboration with Fondazione per l’Educazione finanziaria e al risparmio, BNL GRUPPO BNP PARIBAS, IBI LORENZINI, TOYOTA MOTOR ITALIA, to help children learn the economy and how to use money consciously through simulated working activities in the fields of research and development, sustainable mobility, environment, innovation and digital technologies, citizenship and society as well as earnings-expenditure-savings process management.

The exhibition – for children aged from 6 to 11 years – includes 10 interactive stations:

• Sign up, to choose your own avatar and create your Account Card;  
• Bank, to become familiar with a sensible and conscious use of money.

Four stations to learn working activities in fields such as mechanics, microbiology, logistics and coding: 

• Auto Repair Shop, a station equipped with a car to help children understand how a “clean” energy such as in a hybrid system works: Test Driver, where children can make a driving test to use both engines – electric and thermal – as well as the kinetic energy from the moving wheels that would go wasted otherwise; Checking Tyre Pressure, to inflate tyres properly to ensure safety; Getting Fuel and Checking Fluid Levels, to check fuel, engine oil, and coolant fluid.
• Research allows children to take a virtual journey into the microbiology world, and helps them tell the difference between good and bad bacteria and learn, through play, important concepts about the use of antibiotics. It’s a challenge the microbiologist-child will be facing to defeat a bacterium.
• Coding is focused on new digital technologies. Children can turn into junior or expert programmers and create an animation out of an exact sequence of code blocks, and learn about the logic behind programming.
• Logistics, a station to have fun with delivering parcels reliably, on time, and fast, complying with road traffic rules and avoiding violations while driving.

Three more buying and earnings stations:

• Sport, the station to train body and mind through rowing;
• Music, where children can learn how to play their first notes;
• Leisure Time to have fun and play a table football match.

Thanks to:  Fondazione per l’Educazione Finanziaria e al Risparmio, BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas, Ibi Lorenzini, Toyota Motor Italia.