The plane in which Gabriele D’Annunzio flew over Vienna on August 9, 1918, is just one of the wonders collected by the Caproni family, along with Futurist masterpieces and technical equipment.
The Gianni Caproni Aeronautical Museum offers a unique collection of airplanes, historical relics and works of art collected by the Caproni family, entrepreneurs and pioneers of aeronautics.
Such as the Ansaldo SVA 5 that took part in Gabriele D’Annunzio’s demonstration flight over Vienna on August 9, 1918, with its camouflage livery intact, the Ansaldo A1 of the same 1918, the Caproni Ca 6 of 1911.
The design studio and a glimpse of the propeller workshop of the Caproni factory as it was in the 1920s have also been reconstructed.
Among the works of art dedicated to flight, not to be missed is the collection of Futurist Aeropainting with paintings by Luigi Bonazza, Fortunato Depero, Giacomo Balla, Mario Sironi, Tato and Alfredo Ambrosi.
In 1927, the engineer Caproni began to collect his planes built in the years 1910-20. Then engines, airship parts, propellers, a vast thematic library and a technical and photographic archive were added.
