Museo Nicolis, Technology museum in Villafranca di Verona, Italy
Museo Nicolis is a transport and technology museum in Villafranca di Verona, about three kilometres from Valerio Catullo Airport. Its modern glass-and-steel building holds ten collections, among them hundreds of vintage cars, early bicycles and scooters, aircraft, engines, typewriters, over 400 cameras and mechanical musical instruments such as talking clocks and self-playing pianos.
The museum was established in 2000 from the lifelong passion of a private collector who spent decades gathering mechanical objects. This founding vision continues to guide how the collection is organized and presented.
The collections show how Italians valued mechanical objects and kept them as part of their daily lives and memories. Walking through the rooms, you notice how design choices and craftsmanship reflected what mattered to people in each decade.
The museum is easily accessible by car and sits near two major motorways in the area. You should plan enough time to move comfortably through the different floors without rushing through the exhibits.
The museum's library, among the best stocked in northern Italy on the history of the automobile, is part of the visit alongside the historical archive. The building lies about three kilometres from Verona-Villafranca "Valerio Catullo" Airport. In 2018 the museum received the Museum of the Year award at The Historic Motoring Awards in London.
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