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Museums of Italy:
Museo di Macchine "Enrico Bernardi"
Gian Pio Ottone
Via Morandi, 11 Varese
A private collection of some 160 off-road competition motorcycles in preserved or restored condition including Husqvarna, CZ, Maico, BSA, Metisse, Eso, Ariel, Matchless, Aermacchi, Bianchi, Gilera, Lindstrom, Parilla and MV Agusta.
fb.com/gianpio.ottone
Kawasaki KVMX Museum Foundation
SP 256, 60 - Camigliatello Silano (CS)
Website: kawasakivmxmuseum.it
Officine Benelli
via Mameli, 22- 61121 – Pesaro
Now home to the famed Morbidelli Collection.
Benelli Museum
La Collezione Benito Battilani
Located in Imola, the Collezione Benito e Renzo Battilani has an interesting collection from the early 1900s to 1945, including Frera, and rarities like Pennazio, Ollearo, GC (Giovanni Corengia) and Loris Capirossi's first motorcycle, a Mancini.
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Collezione Castelli
via Termine 25 - 05039 Stroncone (TR)
Website: motoepocacastelli.it
Displays numerous scooters, motorcycles and some 35 automobiles. Visits must be arranged with the owner, Pier Giorgio Castelli.
Museo Storico della Lambretta
Address: Feudo de Seta - Sellia Marina (CZ)
Website: museolambretta.it
Source: asimusei.it
Museo dei Lambretta Club
via Procuzzi, 40 - Capaccio - 84047 - Paestum (SA)
More information: asimusei.it/museo/museo-dei-lambretta-club
Museo della Lambretta Carlo Miniero
Via Marchesiello, 98 Caserta
More information: asimusei.it/museo/museo-della-lambretta-carlo-miniero
Museo Dello Scooter
Assisi
museodelloscooter.com
Aprilia Museum
Noale
motorwebmuseum.it
Museo Ducati
Via Cavalieri Ducati, 3 - Bologna
Website: museo-ducati
Facebook: fb.com/Ducatimuseum
"History and future, challenges and successes, vision and determination: the Ducati Museum is a journey into the myth that traces the 90 years of the company, famous throughout the world for style, performance and the pursuit of perfection."
The museum has sections on the Cucciolo, racing machines from the Giro d'Italia and the Milan-Taranto, road-going singles and parallel twins, a section on bevel-drive twins of the 1970s, and sections on Superbike and Moto GP racers.
Collezione Filippetti
Piazza dei Priori, 1 - Palazzo Comunale di Narni (Terni)
Included in the collection are examples of Moto Reve, Motosacoche, Frera, BSA, Triumph, MAS, Moto Sertum, Benelli, Moto Guzzi, NSU, Gilera, BSA, Astra, Simplex, Motobi, Demm, Laverda, and Parilla.
More information: asimusei.it/museo/collezione-filippetti
Museo dell Automobile Luigi Bonfanti
Via Torino, 2, 36060 Romano D'ezzelino VI, Italy. About an hour and half NW of Venice.
"The 'Bonfanti' Museum of Bassano (in Veneto) might be the best automobile museum in Italy" (The Sunday Times, January 1998).
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museobonfanti.veneto.it
Collezione Mauro Calestrini
Via C.Poma 9 – 41012 Carpi (MO)
Vespa collection from the Presidente del Vespa World Club.
More information: presidente-del-vespa-world-club-mauro-calestrini
Marco Simoncelli Museum
Via G. Garibaldi, 127, 47853 Coriano Rimini
The museum celebrates the life of Marco Simoncelli, also known as Sic, who died on the 23rd October 2011 aged 24 years at Sepang International Circuit during the Malaysian MotoGP.
Marco, who becan riding when only 7 years old, competed in the MotoGP World Championship for 10 years from 2002 to 2011. He started in the 125cc class before moving up to the 250cc class in 2006. He won the 2008 250cc World Championship with Gilera.
More information: marco-simoncelli-museum
Luigi Marignani Collection
Viale Giuseppe Verdi 118 - 03100 Frosinone
In addition to a large collection of autos, "the motorcycle section is also noteworthy with the Alpino 48, the Mosquito Garelli, the MV winner of the Frosinone circuit, a complete collection of Rumi models and other historic models from Italian manufacturers, such as Guzzi, Morini, Gilera, Piaggio, Bianchi, Benelli, Ducati..." BMW and Triumph.
More information: collezione-luigi-marignan
Collezione Umberto & Flavio Nigris
Via Monumento, 29 - San Marco di Mereto di Tomba (UD)
180 vintage motorcycles, the oldest of which is a 1927 Monet-Goyon.
More information: collezione-umberto-e-flavio-nigris
Parmeggiani Collection
Gian Pietro Parmeggiani has amassed some 50 remarkable racing motorcycles including a dozen outstanding examples from Mandelo - Gambalungha, Bialbero , Condor, Dondolino, V8...
parmeggianicollection.com
Museo dell'automobile
San Martino in Rio
The museum has around a dozen motorcycles on display among the large collection of automobiles.
museodellauto.it
Bolgna Musei Storia e Memoria
Italjet Collection Bologna
Museo del Sidecar
Via Valcarecce, 13, 62011 Cingoli MC
sidecar.it
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Spazio Museo Vespa
Via Cavour 302, 00100 Roma (Lazio)
Website: spaziomuseovespa.com
"In the Vespa Museum Space you will find some of the most legendary Vespa models: thanks to the videos and vintage photos, you can relive the charm of the past years, of which the Vespa is now a symbol recognized throughout the world."
David Carlone Museo del Motociclo
Winery, Via Monsignor Sagliaschi, 8 28075
Torchio Grignasco (NO), Italy (90km west of Milan)
"The motorcycle exhibition offers the public the opportunity to see ... the result of a sensitive and "passionate" research of the collector, which has lasted for more than 35 years... It has about 90 pieces. These are vintage motorcycles from before World War II, built by the then emerging Gilera, Guzzi and Bianchi, but also of foreign origin such as the small American-made 1922 Scooter."
museo-del-motociclo
Museo Moto Villa
Concordia sulla Secchia
41033 – Modena
A small museum dedicated to the works of the brothers Francesco and Walter Villa.
Museo Moto Villa
Righini Collection
Via Nino Bixio, 12 - Castelfranco Emilia (MO)
Website: righinimario.it
"The Righini car and motorcycle collection is preserved inside the Panzano Castle in Castelfranco Emilia, in the province of Modena, which once belonged to the Malvasia family." The motorcycle collection consists of early Vespa scooters, World War II Italian and German military motorcycles, and racing machines, all rather tightly packed together.
This page has several images of the motorcycles, but little detail: mario-righini-collection
Collezione Rizzi
Davide Rizzi, owner of the Mathis restaurant in Fiorenzuola (PC) has a splendid collection.
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Pitok Motor Museum
Address: Via Porto, 35, 37057 San Giovanni Lupatoto Verona, Italy
pitokmm.it
Exhibits include beautifully restored examples of Greeves, BSA Victor, Motom Delfino, Parilla...
Museo della Valle dell’Idice
Via Croce di Prunaro, 21 - Budrio
Emilia-Romagna
Website: museodellavalledellidice.it
Saltarelli Collection, Fano
Closed. See Past Museums
Garage Bike Museum
Closed: See Garage Bike Museum
Many more European museums listed by country here: Motorcycle Museums
ASI Musei Museums of Italy
The Automotoclub Storia Italy has a comprehensive guide to Italian automotive museums.
asimusei.it/lista-regioni/