Aviation Museums

and airworthy collections

ITALY

Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni

Aerpporto G. Caproni, Via Lidorno, 3, 38123 Trento TN

Date of visit: 13th June 2023

Museo dell'Aeronautica Gianni Caproni is Italy’s oldest aviation museum, as well as its first corporate museum. Established in 1927 by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer Giovanni Battista “Gianni” Caproni and his wife Timina Guasti Caproni, they decided to preserve, rather than dispose of, some of the more important aircraft produced in the workshops. The collection has, over the years, expanded with aircraft made by other manufacturers and a large collection of works of art, aviation artifacts and models. Inaugurated in 1992, the management of the museum has since been entrusted to the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino on 1st July 2019.