Marconi Museum (Museo Marconi)
Via Celestini 1, Marconi, Bologna, ITA
Step into the world of Nobel Prize winner and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi at the fascinating Guglielmo Marconi Museum just outside Bologna. Housed in the imposing Villa Griffone, Marconi’s former home and the site of many of his scientific experiments and discoveries, the museum is devoted to the inventor’s life and works.
Kids and adults alike will enjoy the interactive and multimedia exhibits at the Guglielmo Marconi Museum, an engaging way to discover the physicist’s groundbreaking work in electricity and radio communication, which included early experiments in wireless telegraphy and the first transmission of radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean. Take a break from Bologna’s art and architecture with a day trip to this unique museum; popular excursions combine a bike ride through the Reno Valley to Villa Griffone, with a relaxing stop at the nearby thermal baths for a therapeutic soak.
The museum can only be visited as part of a guided tour, and reservations must be made ahead of time.
The ground floor of the villa is accessible to wheelchair users.
Visitors can also stroll the villa grounds, where Marconi’s tomb and memorial are located.
The museum is particularly interesting for science and engineering enthusiasts.
Villa Griffone is located in Pontecchio Marconi, about 9 miles (15 kilometers) outside Bologna along the SS 64 highway. The 92 bus runs from the Bologna bus terminal every 30 minutes.
The Guglielmo Marconi Museum can only be visited with a guided tour, offered each Sunday morning to the general public, or by appointment on other days.
Get a glimpse of Marconi's innovations by visiting the museum collection, which includes a number of working replicas of 19th-century scientific instruments (including a spark-gap transmitter), as well as a recreation of Marconi’s laboratory. You can also see film clips of the inventor that focus on the years between 1895, coinciding with his first experiments in wireless telegraphy, to 1901, when the first transatlantic transmission of radio signals began.
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