What to do and see in Province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna: The Best Specialty Museums

Visit the Fonoprint studios in Bologna, where the great artists of Italian music have recorded their greatest hits. Don't miss the unique opportunity to visit Fonoprint, the recording studios that house the Museum of Sound and Song (Museo del suono e della canzone). The history of italian music was made here since the 70's with great singers, such as Lucio Dalla, Vasco Rossi and Zucchero, who recorded some of their masterpieces at Fonoprint. During the visit of the various recording and editing rooms you will have the opportunity to listen to original tracks and learn about unmissable anecdotes, you will see how technology and creativity come together thanks to the skilful work of the sound engineers and you will discover how the pieces of the great artists of Italian music are born.

The Music Museum of Bologna is home to the nine rooms of the exhibition, which illustrate about six centuries of the history of European music. There are over one hundred paintings of famous people from the music world, which are a part of the picture gallery started by Padre Giovanni Battista Martini, more than eighty antique musical instruments, and a large selection of valuable historical documents, such as treatises, volumes, opera libretti, letters, manuscripts, original musical scores, etc.

The Ferruccio Lamborghini Museum narrates the life of Ferruccio through his mechanical creations and a vast archive of family’s photos. This place, conceived and founded by the entrepreneur Tonino Lamborghini to celebrate his father, was inaugurated in 2014. Inside 9,000 sqm. the Museum holds all the industrial productions of the Doctor of Engineering (Hon. Causa) Lamborghini, from the first Carioca tractor which started his company in 1947, to the most important tractors of the ‘50s,’60s and ‘70s. An emotional journey will let you admire Ferruccio’s personal cars collection, like the fabulous Miura SV, and many other famous cars, like the Fiat Barchetta Sport, modified to participate in the 1948 Mille Miglia competition, the futuristic Countach, Jarama models, Urracos and the Espada with seagull wing doors that inspired the car of the Back to the Future movie. The Museum will also offer you a glimpse of two special stories: the helicopter prototype and the 11-times world champion Fast 45 Diablo Class 1 offshore boat, 13.5 meters long with Lamborghini engines. The reconstruction of Ferruccio’s first office at Lamborghini Tractors company with his personal effects, official documents and photos of the period will help you discovering not only his life, but also the story of his family and of the people who worked for his companies during the Italian economic boom in the late ’50s-‘60s.