Museo Tibaldo Giancarlo
Museum of the history of communication from 1700 to 1970 in Trissino, with radios, gramophones, musical machines, cinema and scientific instruments.
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About the museum
The museum grew out of the collecting passion of Giancarlo Tibaldo, who over more than forty years gathered more than ten thousand working items on the history of audio, video and musical communication, science and technology. The route covers over two hundred years of development, from the 18th century to the 1970s.
The rooms are devoted to themes such as inventors, gramophones and phonographs, musical machines (carillons, player pianos, barrel organs), radio with the patents of Tesla and Marconi, the telephone, cinema from magic lanterns to the projectors of the 1960s, photography and television. There are also materials from Ducati, such as capacitors, radios, projectors and calculators, the unique Rumi motorcycles, electrical equipment applied to medicine, and optical and mechanical instruments for school teaching.
The museum is linked to the websites dedicated to antique scientific instruments and antique medical instruments. Visits are currently suspended for renovation works.
Highlights
- More than ten thousand working items on the history of communication from 1700 to 1970
- Historic radios with the patents of Tesla and Marconi
- Gramophones, phonographs and musical machines from the 18th and 19th centuries
- Cinema from magic lanterns to the projectors of the 1960s
- Ducati materials and original Rumi motorcycles
Permanent exhibition
- La storia della comunicazione dal 1700 al 1970 – Collection of more than ten thousand items on radios, gramophones, musical machines, cinema, telephony, and scientific and medical instruments.
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €8 |
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| Reduced | €6people with disabilities, holders of partner agreements and children under 12 |
| Children & teens | €6Reduced rate for children under 12. |
| Visitors with disabilities | €6 |
Accessibility
The museum is closed to visitors for renovation; no reopening date is given.
Kids & families
- Family tours & workshops
Schools can follow a workshop with scientific experiments after the visit.
Getting there & parking
By public transit
The website refers to a page with bus timetables and departures.
By car: exit at the Vicenza Ovest motorway toll plaza, direction Montecchio Maggiore; the museum is in Trissino, within the Sirio Materassi area.
Get directionsAmenities & dining
The museum is closed to visitors for renovation; no reopening date is given.
Events & venue rental
The museum is closed to visitors for renovation; no reopening date is given.
Plan your visit
| School programs | yes |
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| Good to know | Visits by booking (tel. +39 0445 491 512, e-mail info@museotibaldo.it). For schools – fourth and fifth classes of primary school and lower and upper secondary schools – a visit adapted to the level of study is offered, together with a workshop with experiments on electromagnetism, electrostatics, batteries and the Stirling engine. |
