Museo Storico dell'Aeronautica Militare di Vigna di Valle

The Air Force Historical Museum, inaugurated in 1977 by the President of the Republic Giovanni Leone, with its 13,000 square metres of covered exhibition area, is one of the largest and most interesting flight museums in the world. It has the task of collecting, restoring, preserving, exhibiting and enhancing aeronautical material of historical and documentary interest from discoveries or donations from private individuals. Arranged over four large exhibition pavilions, it houses about 80 aircraft and a conspicuous collection of engines and aeronautical memorabilia of various kinds that tell, in chronological sequence, the history of military flight in Italy and that of the men and women who were its protagonists. The route winds its way through the sectors dedicated to pioneers, airships, the First World War, General Nobile's epic of polar flights, the great mass cruisers, the Schneider Cup, aircraft between the two Wars, the Second World War and the great aeroplanes, ending with the last pavilion illustrating the post-war rebirth of the Air Force.