Museums in Italy

The Ferrari Museum in Maranello provides visitors with an experience that allows them to discover the history of the Group, of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1 and of the most iconic track and road cars that have written the history of the Prancing Horse, and continue to do so today.

The Ferruccio Lamborghini Museum narrates the life of Ferruccio through his mechanical creations and a vast archive of family’s photos. This place, conceived and founded by the entrepreneur Tonino Lamborghini to celebrate his father, was inaugurated in 2014. Inside 9,000 sqm. the Museum holds all the industrial productions of the Doctor of Engineering (Hon. Causa) Lamborghini, from the first Carioca tractor which started his company in 1947, to the most important tractors of the ‘50s,’60s and ‘70s.

For die-hard fans of the ubiquitous Italian minicar, which was produced from the 1950s to the 1970s this tiny museum of memoribilia and other related objects by Pietro Folisi is highly recommended.

The FIAT 500 Museum in Nebrodi was founded in Acquedolci on 12 May 2019, with the aim of making known and enhancing the history of the car that allowed, in the 60s and 70s, the first economic and recreational activities in the mountainous territory of the Nebrodi. The structure, small in size, displays two Fiat 500s, the tools of a workshop from the 60s, spare parts and memorabilia.

The Fiat Historical Centre contains the brand museum and the company archive. It is based in Turin, in a fine Art Nouveau building in the area where the company's first manufacturing workshops were set up. Its displays do not focus only on cars: Fiat aeroplanes, trains, tractors, bicycles, washing machines, refrigerators, war technology and even ship engines are all on show, as well as its legendary cars.

Small local collection

Count Francesco Baracca was Italy's top fighter ace of World War I, who died in 1918. His prancing horse emblem was used by Enzo Ferrari later on. Lugo, the hometown of Francesco Baracca, has dedicated to the World War I hero a museum housing the SPAD VII, the fighter that brought Baracca to one of his 34 victories, as well as numerous mementos from the time.

The Fratelli Cozzi Museum, which takes its name from the Alfa Romeo dealership opened in 1955 by Pietro Cozzi, houses the collection of the founder who decided to buy a model of each Alfa produced in its sportiest or other special version. The museum opened in 2015 and today contains more than 50 cars, two of which are unique in the world.

The former Frera factories in via Zara were built in 1905 by Corrado Frera to host his company by the same name, founded in Milan in 1897. Today it has been rebuilt by the Municipal administration to host the Civic Library and the Motorcycle Museum. The building that for nearly thirty years was a mechanics workshop where hundreds of motorbikes were assembled, today has a beautiful liberty-style orange façade. On the upper floor it is possible to visit the Motorcycle Museum divided into two areas, one bigger, of the Frera models, and another those of their competition.