Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up plans for all that and more, but few ever made it out of his sketchbooks. It also uses souped-up, PlayStation-style engineering that lets you flip through his Codex notebooks, rotate the images and watch them take on a 3-D life of their own. Then the screen pulls away to reveal a replica of his workshop (try not to knock over that skeleton in the corner on your way in). Inside the main gallery are 10 models of his inventions, touch-screen stations, a life-size rendering of “The Last Supper” and a retouched version of the Mona Lisa in which her sallow skin has turned practically rosy. Conceived 500 years ago as a present for the king of France, da Vinci made it so that pulleys and ropes made it walk and even drop a bunch of lilies at the king’s feet.

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