Verona's Nicolis Museum is one of the most important private museums in Europe with its large collection of old cars, motorcycles, bicycles, cameras, musical instruments, motors, planes and other inventions of the sort. It is perhaps most known for its rare collection of Formula 1 race cars. This is no traditional museum but rather a modern space for culture and ideas open to the digital, information and business worlds.

Founded in 2000 by Luciano Nicolis - a businessman passionate about old cars - this automobile, technical and mechanical museum has become one of the most important and beautiful museums dedicated to cars today. The museum boasts an extensive collection of precious and impossible to find today car-related objects collected all around the world by Nicolis - motivated by his great interests in cars and mechanics. There are 8 collections totaling over 1,000 objects that tell the story of how man has overcome the challenge of distance in both time and space.

The objects on display are divided into eight themed categories: automobiles, motorcycles, bicycles, airplanes, musical instruments, cameras, typewriters/computers, motors, race cars and military objects. Among the most rare pieces, you will find the first motorcycle to run on gas from 1882, the only remaining Lancia Astura 1000 Miglia automobile in the world, the 1929 Isotta Fraschini (a royal car), the legendary F104 Starfighter plane and many ancient typewriter machines.

Discover the history and development of transportation throughout the past two centuries
Admire over 1,000 objects including old cars, motorcycles, cameras, typewriters and more
Visit a one-of-a-kind museum showing the evolution of human thought through transportation

The museum reserves the right to open or close for special occasions
Opening times: from Tuesday to Sunday 10am – 6pm
Reduced ticket is valid for: Children from 11 up to 16 years old, adults over 60 years old, groups with more than 8 paying adults, company vouchers
Free ticket valid for: children up to 5 years, accompanied by an adult; teachers accompanying school groups of any age from public or private schools, further to phone booking. Free entrance is given to companions in the following proportions (unless agreed otherwise with the management); for infant and junior schools, 1 companion every 10 pupils or fraction of 10; secondary and high schools, 1 companion every 15 pupils or fraction of 15; coach drivers accompanying groups to the museum; tourist interpreters when they are needed next to the guide; directors and curators of Italian and foreign museums; managers from Ministries and Public Institutions; government officials and representatives; registered journalists, after showing their pass; authorized professional tourist guides, after showing their pass; members of I.C.O.M. (International Council of Museum); disabled and invalids who are legally recognized, with certificates, plus their companion; the Nicolis Museum management may grant free entrance to anyone on a study or work visit, or for special tasks on showing the declaration from the institution they belong to