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Volandia – Parco e museo del volo | |
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  Location within Italy | |
| Established | 2010 |
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| Location | Via per Tornavento, 15, Case Nuove 21019 Somma Lombardo (VA), Italy |
| Coordinates | 45°37′48″N 8°42′24″E / 45.630080°N 8.706800°E |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Collection size | 100 aircraft, plus cars, motorbikes, scale models and historically significant artifacts |
| Nearest car park | On site (no charge) |
| Website | Official website |
Volandia Park and Flight Museum is the largest Italian aeronautical museum, as well as one of the largest in Europe. Volandia displays over 100 aircraft. The museum covers an area of ca. 60,000 m2 (645,000 sq ft)[1] of which 20,000 m2 (215,000 sq ft) are indoors.[2] It opened in 2010, after a 10-year preparation phase.[3]
The museum is located immediately adjacent to Milan-Malpensa Airport within the historic buildings of the Caproni Vizzola plant, dating from 1913.[4]
Since its foundation in 2010, the park-museum has been enriched with numerous collections, including the Luciano Piazzai Modeling Collection, and the Flaminio Bertoni Museum; it also houses the Gruppo Bertone Collection, which brings together some of the most famous cars designed by the Turin car body shop.
The complex is located within the Ticino Park.
- ^ "Volandia". volandia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "Volandia, il Parco e Museo del Volo di Malpensa". giorgiociarini.com (in Italian). Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ Orlando Mastrillo (8 May 2010). "Volandia "decolla", il museo del volo è realtà" [Volandia "Takes off", the aviation museum becomes reality]. Varese News (in Italian). Retrieved 21 November 2016.
- ^ "La Caproni Vizzola". museoagusta.it. Retrieved 16 April 2024.