Marconi Museum, Technology museum in Sasso Marconi, Italy.

The Marconi Museum is a technology museum in Sasso Marconi that houses instruments and equipment from the history of wireless telegraphy. The collection shows how these devices contributed to the development of radio communication.

In 1894 and 1895 the young Guglielmo Marconi carried out his first decisive radiotelegraphy experiments in the rooms of Villa Griffone, the Marconi family's country residence at Pontecchio Marconi. The villa and its structure are preserved intact. Marconi died in 1937, and a few years later, during the Second World War, the Mussolini government had him and his second wife Maria Cristina Bezzi Scali interred in the mausoleum built at the foot of the villa.

The museum keeps working reproductions of late-19th-century scientific apparatus and interactive devices that trace the history of electricity and radio. The villa also houses the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi and the Ugo Bordoni Foundation, so the building is still a centre for research on radio communication.

The museum and mausoleum are at Villa Griffone on via Celestini 1 in Pontecchio Marconi, about 15 km from Bologna. The mausoleum is an underground hypogeum reached by a simple entrance beneath a tumulus, so expect a stepped or sloping approach rather than level access throughout. The villa also houses the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi and the Ugo Bordoni Foundation.

The mausoleum was built a few years after Marconi's death in 1937, during the Second World War, by the Mussolini government. Architect Marcello Piacentini designed the underground hypogeum-tomb, which has a simple entrance to a chamber beneath a tumulus and a column with Marconi's bust by Arturo Dazzi. Its form recalls Etruscan and ancient Roman tombs.