Museums in Italy

On display in the State Police Car Museum there are about thirty motor vehicles and motorcycles used by the State Police in the last 60 years. The technical characteristics of the vehicles forming part of the habits and life of Italians can be seen close up and admired. Among others, the famous Alfa 1900 "Pantera", the "Giulia", the Fiat "Campagnola" (off-road vehicle), the Highway Police "Guzzi" motor­cycle, and the legendary "Ferrari 250 GTE

This Museum contains a main point and suggestive harvest of photo, unpublished documentaries, objects and heirlooms of the auto race on harder and fascinating road of every time, the mythical one "Targa Florio".

The area of ​​the Roman garage is one thousand square meters to accommodate fifty cars. Nearly as many are in Tuscany and 130 in America, in Allentown. 80 percent of the cars were built before 1960. The oldest is from 1928.

"The Vittoriale Degli Italiani (The Shrine of Italian Victories)", is the monumental city-home, created in Gardone Riviera, on Lake Garda by the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio between 1921 and 1938. The Vittoriale is not only an impressive house, but also comprises streets and squares, gardens, rivers, theatres and museums. The estate consists of the residence of d'Annunzio called the Prioria (Priory), an amphitheatre, the light cruiser Puglia set into a hillside, a boathouse containing the MAS vessel used by D'Annunzio in 1918 and a circular mausoleum.

Angelo Triolo's private motorcycle collection

TtrAM - Trentino transport Archive and Museum contains two souls. The first, the historical archive, which collects the documentation of the Trento-Malé and Atesina Railway, from its foundation to their transformation into the new company. The second, an exhibition, accompanied by numerous materials - objects, images and archive documents - also by private collectors, of the events linked to the history of the two companies and of the companies that, with them, have characterized the history of local transport in Trentino.

The Umberto Panini Classic Car Collection is one of the most fascinating exhibitions dedicated to Maserati. Cars that have made Maserati history and that have been lovingly gathered over the years are housed in a typical building in Cittanova, Modena. Originally the brainchild of the Maserati brothers and expanded by Omar Orsi, the collection has remained more or less intact to the present day. It is now run by West (a company owned by the Panini family) and includes 23 cars on display and three that are currently undergoing restoration.

From the passion of a few men an interesting museum housed within the old Mossini primary school, in a small hamlet in Sondrio along the road to Valmalenco illustrates the history of motorcycle riders and the motorcycles of old in Valtellina, through its exhibition on the "old ladies" of two wheels.

This private collection is housed in the Civic Museum of Palazzo Cento.. The museum includes a historical archive on Piaggio and the best known product of the Pontedera group: the Vespa. There are obviously many motorcycles on display: among the rarest a 98 cc, which belongs to the first series from 1946, the Vespa Sei giorni (1951), Acma Militare and a Vespa 400 car.