MUSEUM OF AERONAUTICS, Museum Of Aeronautics

Hi, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Gianni Caproni Aeronautical Museum.

The Gianni Caproni Aeronautical Museum in Trento is one of the finest museums of its kind in existence, not least of all thanks to its lengthy history. It was founded in the 1920s, when the aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer Gianni Caproni, better known as Gino, decided to save some of the most important aircraft in his workshop from being dismantled and conserve them in the facility, thus establishing the first corporate museum in Italy and the oldest aviation museum in the world.

Thanks to Caproni’s success as an industrialist, in the years between the two world wars, during which the Caproni Group became one of the world’s leading aircraft builders, the museum’s collections gained a number of new models, together with documents, books, pictures and memorabilia illustrating the history of aviation pioneers. Caproni was assisted in this endeavor by his wife Thymine, a sophisticated, cultured woman with a passion for art she shared with her husband: inside the museum, you can admire numerous works, most of them in the Futurist style, that belonged to the couple’s art collection....