Automotive museums in Italy and San Marino

Created: November, 1995
Last updated: 30, January, 2005

Official museum list by Automobilclub Storico Italiano

Associazione Storico Culturale Piero Taruffi auto e moto d'Epoca

Via Fidanza 55, 01022 Bagnoregio (Viterbo)

Ph: +39 0761 - 780 811

Open: Saturday, Sunday

Ph: www.museotaruffi.it

Displaying: various oldtimers and the Taruffi-designed race car BISILURO.

Museo di Macchine "Enrico Bernardi"

c/o Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, viale Venezia, 1 - 35131 Padova

Ph: +39 049 827 67 52. Fax: -85

WWW: www.musei.unipd.it/macchine/

Visit strictly by appointment only. Please contact Prof. Antonio Dario Martegani, Scientific advisor.

Early automobiles from the 1890s made by Enrico Bernardi.

Centro Storico Della Motorizzazzione Civile

Via di Settebagni 333, Rome

Ph: +39- 06 - 87 28 82 02

Only by appointment

Centro Storico Fiat

Turin Via Chiabrera 20, Torino

Opens: 9.00-12.30 end 14.30-17.30 weekdays

Ph: (+39 011) 68 62 513. Fax: (+39 011 66 33 645)

Fiat museum portrays the company's diverse history but the collection includes fewer cars than might be expected as many are on display in the Biscaretti museum (Turin Automobile Museum).

CLOSED DURING RESTAURATION

Galleria Ferrari

Via Dino Ferrari 43, Maranello (Modena)

Ph +39 05 36 94 32 04. Fax: -97 14

Open: Tue-Sun 9.30-12.30, 15 - 18h

WWW: galleria.ferrari.com

This collection is being operated by the factory and a recent (Winter, 2004) visit finally saw a better exhibition of vehicles than previously. You can see the glorious past and present here.

Museo dell'automobile "Luigi Bonfanti"

Via Torino 2, Romano d'Ezzelino (VI)

Tel: +39-424-513-746. Fax: +39-424-513-690

Opens: 10-12.30 and 14.30-19.00 (closed on Mondays>

WWW: www.museobonfanti.veneto.it

Very nice selection of Italian cars.

Museo della Locomozione

Via Lazio, Potenza

Ph: +39 0971 46 94 77

Open: Mon 16 -21, Tue-Fri 9 - 13.30, 16 -21; Sat, Sun -21.30

WWW: www.museodellalocomozione.com

displaying: 12 oldtimers, 12 race cars

Museo dell'automobile di San Martino in Rio (RE)

Via Barbieri 12, 42018 S.Martino in Rio RE

Tel/fax: +39 0522 636133. +39 0522 64 62 30

Open: 1st weekend / month & Fri 21 - 24h or by appointment

WWW: www.museodellauto.it/

The museum is on the FIA official museums list and shows 42 cars, 15 motorbikes, some bikes Zedel 10 HP 1910 the car of the former Italy's queen Margherita di Savoia - Ford T 1916 - Itala tipo 20 1920 - SPA 25/35 HP 1908 - Fiat 501, 505, 508, 508 S(1935), 509(1926), 527(1934), 500, 130 - Ansaldo 4 H - Lancia Augusta, Artena, Aprilia,Appia, Ardea, Flaminia (Berlina and coupe), Flavia, Fulvia - Alfa Romeo 2500 Freccia d'oro, Giulietta Sprint and Spider, Mercedes 170 - MG Tb, Tc, Pb, A - Jaguar XK120, E - Rolls 20/25 HP (1934), Tojeiro (1954), Aston Martin DB 2 etc.

Museo Ford Gratton, Farra d 'lsonzo

Via Gorizia 150, Farra d'Isonzo (Gorizia)

Location: Near South border, 40km from Trieste, 120km from Venice on N36 from Govizia to Farra d'lsonzo

Ph: +39 04 81 52 01 21. Fax: -52 06 43

Opens: Sept-July on workdays 10-13h or by appointment

Associated with a Ford dealership of Paolo Gratto. Its housed since 1987 in a purpose-built home which reproduces the facade of Ford's old factory at Trieste.
An excellent large collection of Historic Fords from 1908 Model T to RS200, plus many other interesting cars and motorcycles.

Museo di Grazzano Visconti

Grazzano Visconti, Piacenza

Tel: +39-523-870-190

Location: 16km from Piacenza

Opens: 9.30-12.30 and 14.00-18 30 daily

Museum has been closed and its collection disbanded by 2004.

Lamborghini Museum

Phone: +39 051 - 68 17 611

Via Modena 12, 40019 Sant'Agata Bolognese (BO)

This is the official factory museum, with many interesting and rare automobiles. It is located inside the factory but it is visible from the street. It seems visit is by appointment only. When we were there during December, 2004 a Lamborghini LM002 was parked just outside the museum :)

Centro Polifunzionale Ferruccio Lamborghini

Via Statale 342, Dosso,

Phone: +39 051 85 26 28

WWW: www.lamborghinicalor.it

Unlike the factory's museum, this collection emphasizes Ferruccio's personal cars and accomplishments throughout his life. So there are many tractors and even a helicopter. Naturally many of the famous sportscars are also being represented.

Museo d'Auto e Moto d'epoca Umberto Panini

Via Corletto sud 320 C/o Azienda Agricola Hombre- 41100 Modena

Ph: +39 059 51 06 60. Fax: -07 33

Open: by 10 days' prior appointment

Displaying: Maseratis

See the article, Panini: The Ultimate Collection in Maserati North America's Maserati Monthly January, 2006 issue.

Museo Storico della Motorizzazione Militare

Viale dell'Esercito 170, Citta Militare della Cecchignola (Roma)

Ph: +39 06 50 11 885. Fax: 06 50 11 885

Open: Sat+Sun 9-12 or by appointment

Displaying: 60 motorcycles, 60 tanks, 280 military vehicles

Museo Europeo dei Trasporti Ogliari

Via Alberto 99, 21020 Ranco (Varese)

Phone: +39 033 197 5198

Open: Tue-Sun 10-12, 15-17h

WWW: museo-ogliari.it

Displaying: commercial vehicles, 3 locomotives, tramway, movie about oldies and m-cycles

Collezione Vincenzo Lancia

Via Caraglio 84, Torino

Ph: +39 011 00 321 00

Open: by appointment

Belongs to the Lancia Club.

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci

Via San Vittore 21, 20123 Milano

Ph: +39 02 48 55 51. Fax: +39 02 48 01 00 16.

Opens: Tue-Fri 9.30-17, Sat, Sun -18.30;

WWW: www.museoscienza.org

The Leonardo da Vinci museum also contains a collection of interesting Italian cars, including Alfas, OMs and Fiats, not least the 1954 turbine car.

Museo Storico Alfa Romeo

Via Santa Maria Rossa, Arese 20020

Phone: +39- 02 93 92 81 11. Fax: +39 02 91 55 64

Location: 15km northwest of Milan

Open: Sep-Jul Mon-Fri 9.30-12, 14.30-16.30

WWW: www.museoalfaromeo.com

Superb collection representing the complete history of Alfa Romeo. Numerous very famous cars.

Museo Nicolis

Viale Postumia, 37069 Villafranca di Verona

Ph: +39 045 630 59 59. Fax: - 797 94 93

Open: Tue - Sun 10 - 18h

WWW: www.museonicolis.com

Displaying: cars, motorcycles, bicycles, buses / commercial vehicles, aircraft, tanks

Museo Nazionale Dei Trasporti

Via del Canaletto 100, La Spezia

Ph: +39 0187 52 25 11. Fax: -51 68 32

Trains, tramways, buses

Museo Stanguellini

Via Emilia Est 756, Modena

Ph: +39 059 - 361 105 / 360 062. Fax: - 374 845

www.stanguellini.it

Open: Mon - Fri 9 - 12, 15 - 18h; Sat & Sun for groups only.

Displaying: many Stanguellini race cars (Formula V and III etc.), some sports cars

Tazio Nuvolari Museum

9 Piazza Broletto, Mantova

Phone: +39-376-32 79 29. Fax: +39 376 32 79 29

Open: Mar-Oct Tue, Wed, Fri-Sun; Nov, Dec Sat, Sun: 10 -13, 15.30-18.30; in autumn & winter call!

WWW: www.pininfarina.it/ita/storia/collezione.html

At anyone time, 16 from a collection of 40 Pininfarina designed vehicles are on display at Cambiano.

Quattroruote Collection

Via Gianni Mazzocchi 1/3, 20089 Rozzano, Milan

Location: Just south of the Tangenziale Ovest adjacent to the A7 Autostrada

Ph: +39 02 82 47 21

Open: Apr-June & Sept-Oct on 1 Sunday, mid-month, call beforhand

International collection of landmark cars, some modest, others glamorous but all significant.

Museo dell'Automobile. Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia Turin

Corso Unita d'Italia 40, Torino

Ph: +39 011 67 76 66. Fax: +39 011 67 71 48

Opens: Tue-Sat 10 -18.30, Sun -20.30

WWW: www.museoauto.org

This is the single most important automobile museum in Italy and one of the world's great museums, rightly famous for the extent and quality of its 170 cars and many subsidiary exhibits.

SAN MARINO

Maranello Rosso Collezione

Stelabar S.A. - Strada dei Censiti, 21 47891 Falciano - Repubblica di San Marino

Directions: In front of aircraft-museum on the other side of the highway, next to VW-AUDI-SKODA -dealership, Stelabar S.A. in building "Diamond";

Tel: +39-0549-970-614

Fax: +39-0549-970-607

WWW: www.maranellorosso.com/

Pal Negyesi

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