A 98-seat digital dome
The half-hour show rebuilds the night sky overhead and is, without competition, the reason to come.
Eccekevin โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Simona Gallina โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Simona Gallina โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท EdoBoo โ CC0
Without children, no. Two days are swallowed by the Egyptian Museum, the Mole Antonelliana and the Royal Palace, and adding a hillside excursion is a net loss. With children aged roughly six to twelve the answer flips: Infini.to is the one out-of-town stop I would force into a short itinerary, provided you book a Saturday or Sunday afternoon slot and arrive by car or taxi rather than bus.
In theory yes, in practice no. Bus 30 from central Turin leaves you at the Osservatorio stop at the foot of the hill, with about two kilometres of narrow uphill road still to climb โ half an hour on foot. With children or a pushchair, take a taxi or a ride-hailing car instead; it is roughly half an hour from the centre and parking at the museum is free.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet โ be the first.
Infini.to is not a dome bolted onto a museum; it is an entire building buried in the hillside at Pino Torinese, ten kilometres east of Turin โ four floors, three of them underground, with a 98-seat digital dome at the bottom. Next door stands the Turin Astrophysical Observatory, a working research institute rather than a visitor attraction, and that neighbour lends the place a credibility most tourist planetariums only imply. One ticket buys two things: about an hour in the interactive museum, then a half-hour show under the dome. The museum is built around doing rather than looking โ stations on gravity, the speed of light, relativity, and how stars are born and die, pitched so a ten-year-old follows it without the adult beside them feeling patronised. The show rearranges the whole sky overhead, and it is the part children come out of quiet for a minute or two. Be clear about what this is: a short trip out of the city, not a stop on a walking tour of central Turin. The dome show runs in Italian, and the museum compensates with an English audioguide you listen to on your own phone as you work through the exhibition floors (it exists in Italian sign language too), so bring headphones. If you are travelling without children and without much appetite for astronomy, skip it without regret. With school-age kids it may well be the best two hours you spend anywhere near Turin. Driving is far easier: ten kilometres and free parking at the door. Bus 30 from central Turin sets you down at the Osservatorio stop, after which roughly two kilometres of uphill road remain โ manageable for adults, punishing with children. It closes on Mondays, and visits run at fixed times rather than as free entry: 10:30 and 14:00 from Tuesday to Friday, and three afternoon slots at 14:30, 16:00 and 17:30 at weekends, with occasional evening openings in some seasons. Seats are capped by the size of the dome, so book online a day or two ahead rather than arriving on spec. The Torino+Piemonte Card gives free entry, and the observatory next door is a separate institution not covered by the ticket.
The half-hour show rebuilds the night sky overhead and is, without competition, the reason to come.
Hands-on stations explain gravity, relativity and the speed of light by experiment rather than by label.
The dome show is in Italian, but the museum floors have an English audio track you run from your own phone and headphones.
Via Osservatorio 30, 10025 Pino Torinese, Turin