Borgo Panigale Experience

Borgo Panigale, Bologna

The full Ducati experience. It doesn’t matter if you’re a fan of the brand and an engine lover or not; whatever your age or background, at the Ducati museum you’ll discover the past and at the factory you’ll experience the present by witnessing live how the Borgo Panigale company’s motorcycles are created.

One museum. 4 exhibition routes.

    • Ducati moments: the facts, people and technological innovations that have marked the company’s evolution;
    • Origins: narrating the first twenty years of the Borgo Panigale-based company from 1926 to 1946, when Antonio Cavalieri Ducati founded the Società Scientifica Radio Brevetti Ducati, specializing in radio communications technology. The products developed by the three brothers, Adriano, Bruno and Marcello, ranged from capacitors to electric shavers and cameras, achieving their first market successes;
    • The history of road motorcycles: With the production of engine components and motorcycles, a new era begins: the history of road motorcycles. The protagonists of this journey are the twenty most iconic models that made the company’s history great, models presented through an exhibition in four different rooms of the museum;

      The Ducati museum is designed to tell the story of the company through four different paths that guide visitors from its origins to the present day:

    • Ducati’s history in racing: Constitutes the last narrative path, which is developed through the display of a rich collection of racing motorcycles positioned around the perimeter of the museum. Each model recounts a victory and a rider whose name will remain written in Ducati’s roll of honor. The museum section is complemented by a display of trophies and suits that belonged to four of these great champions.

Ducati Factory

The factory was inaugurated in 1936 when the Ducati family chose Borgo Panigale as the place to move production of the Manens condenser, which until then had been produced first in the basement of a building located in the center of Bologna on Via Collegio di Spagna and later at the villa owned by the Ducati family on Via Guidotti. Since then this has been Ducati’s headquarters where Ducati motorcycles are designed, assembled and shipped around the world.

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Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Closed days: Wednesdays from August 12 to 18, 2024 inclusive, December 24 to 26, 2024 inclusive, December 31, 2024

Directions: Via Antonio Cavalieri Ducati, 3, 40132 Bologna BO

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