Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile

A Century of Italian Motoring

Torino's National Automobile Museum traces straight back to the city's role as the birthplace of Italy's car industry. It was founded in 1933 by motoring pioneers Cesare Goria Gatti and Roberto Biscaretti di Ruffia, and the purpose-built museum on Corso Unità d'Italia opened to the public in 1960. It closed for a thorough reorganisation in 2007 and reopened in 2011, timed to the 150th anniversary of Italian unification.

The permanent collection runs to almost 200 vehicles spanning around eighty brands and eight countries — from early pioneer-era automobiles through Italian icons to contemporary design studies — making it one of the most complete automotive museums in Europe, fittingly located in the city that gave rise to Fiat, Lancia and a century of Italian car design.