The Caproni Museum is the first Italian company museum and among the first to exhibit a world-class aeronautical collection. Since its first years of activity, Gianni Caproni and his wife Timina decided to keep some of the most important aircraft among those produced inside the workshops instead of proceeding with their disposal. Over the years, the collection has been enriched with aircraft made by other companies and a conspicuous collection of works of art. This choice, in 1929, led to the foundation of the Museum of Taliedo, in the province of Milan. Opened in 1992, the Trento headquarters houses an important collection of aircraft with some priceless pieces.
Since 1 July 2019, the management of the Museum has been entrusted to the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino.
A pioneer in aviation, Gianni Caproni was born in Mason di Arco on 3 July 1886.
After graduating in civil engineering in 1908, he became fascinated by flying and, together with his brother Federico, started a company for the design and production of airplanes, some of which were later used during the First World War.
Since the Great War, the link with the Italian State has become indissoluble and the advent of fascism and its expansionist and military policy favours the progressive growth of the company and its transformation into an industrial group with numerous plants in Italy and abroad.
An industrial success story that gradually ended after the Second World War, in a profoundly changed economic and political context: it remains one of the most important testimonies in the history of world aviation.
After the death of Gianni Caproni, which took place in Rome on 27 October 1957, all the heritage is kept by the family: above all, his daughter Maria Fede continues to enhance the collections, documentation and continuous enrichment.
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