Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics
The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics (Italian: Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni) is Italy's oldest aviation museum, as well as the country's oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum (Museo Caproni) by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni and his wife, Timina Guasti Caproni.
Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni | |
Location within Italy | |
| Established | 1927 |
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| Location | Via Lidorno, 3 38100 Trento Italy |
| Coordinates | 46.020474°N 11.12683°E |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Collection size | 26 aircraft on display several hundred historically significant artifacts |
| Curator | Michele Lanzinger |
| Nearest car park | On site (no charge) |
| Website | www.museocaproni.it |
| Area | 1,400 m2 (15,000 sq ft) (main hangar only) |
The museum was originally located in Taliedo, in the suburbs of Milan. The aircraft in the collection were moved to Venegono Superiore during World War II, and the exhibition was reopened in Vizzola Ticino (in the province of Varese) in the 1960s. At the end of the 1980s, the museum moved to its present location. The current museum building, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) south of Trento and adjacent to the Trento Airport (itself dedicated to the memory of Gianni Caproni), was opened on 3 October 1992.