Museum of Engines and Mechanisms, Technology museum at the University of Palermo, Italy

The Museum of Engines and Mechanisms in Palermo holds more than 300 mechanical devices ranging from water pumps and steam engines to turbines, collected to show how machinery evolved. Each piece demonstrates a specific engineering solution or technology from its own time period.

Founded in 2011, the museum preserves machines that once powered factories, vehicles, and aircraft across different eras. The collection documents the technological systems that made industrial development possible.

The museum shows how engineering knowledge developed through hands-on examples of machines that people actually built and used. Walking through the collection reveals the thinking behind different designs and the practical problems engineers had to solve at different times.

The museum is on the university campus at Parco d'Orléans, in the building of the Department of Industrial and Digital Innovation. A free audioguide and a 3D virtual tour are available. The restoration laboratory, where finds are treated with a conservative approach, is part of the museum's activity.

On 31 May 2017 the museum became the first in Italy to receive the "Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collection" designation from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Its best-known single piece is a Fiat G.59 4B aircraft, one of only five complete examples still surviving.