The Fiat Historic Center (Centro Storico Fiat) is a museum and company archive based in Turin.
It exhibits cars, airplanes, trains, tractors, trucks, bicycles, washing machines, refrigerators with the Fiat brand.
Scale models, reconstructions of parts of the production process, posters and advertising sketches complete the collection.
The archival section contains more than 5,000 linear meters of paper documents, 300,000 technical drawings, 5,000 volumes and magazines on motoring and industrial history, 6 million images, 200 hours of historical films.
Of particular interest are the collections of the designers Dante Giacosa and Giuseppe Gabrielli.
The Centro Storico Fiat is located in the first extension of the workshops in Corso Dante Alighieri, in Turin, where the company was born.
The work of Alfredo Premoli, an appreciated exponent of Turin liberty, was designed and built between 1904 and 1906 and inaugurated in 1907.
It was a production and finishing workshop, shed, warehouse, representative office.
The idea of ??a museum and documentation center was born in 1961, on the wave of enthusiasm for the celebrations of the centenary of the unification of Italy.
Operating since 1963, its rooms hosted important events in the history of the company, first of all the signing, on May 4, 1966, of the agreement that led to the construction of a factory in the Russian city of Togliatti to produce the Zhiguli, a version slightly modified of the Fiat 124.
In 1999, on the occasion of Fiat's centenary, it was renovated and refurbished by the architects Gabetti and Isola.
In 2011 the spaces destined for the archives were quadrupled, a new consultation room was created, and the museum part was permanently open to the public, exclusively on Sundays.
Visiting days and times:
Every Sunday
10.00-19.00
Continued schedule
FREE ENTRY
Fiat Historic Center
Address: Via Gabriele Chiabrera, 20, 1012
Phone: 011 0066240
Site:
https://www.fcaheritage.com/Location inserted by
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