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Collection

The Marconi Museum houses some rarities of the so-called pioneer era (late 1800's - early 1900's) of wireless telegraphy, as well as various models of industrial production of later date.

The uniqueness of the instruments on display is represented by a series of functioning replicas, realized over the years by Maurizio Bigazzi on the basis of accurate historical data and – when possible – utilizing materials and parts of the period.

Such wonders of top-notch craftsmanship, identical in aspect and consistency to the antique instruments (long-lost), also perfectly replicate the original mechanisms and thus the normal functioning of the time, allowing the reenactment of the first historical experiments of wireless telegraphy.

 

   
 
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t-lodge   t-branly   t-righi   t-popov   t-temporali
t-tavolo   t-termoelettrica   t-trasmgriff   t-antenna   t-ricevgriff
t-ricevingh   t-trasmbristol   t-ricevlaspezia   t-trasmsanbart   t-ricevsanbart
t-ricevmanica   t-staznavale   t-sint7777   t-baden   t-brookite
t-leida   t-gocciamerc   t-sigari   t-monoasc   t-doppioasc
t-rocchetto   t-ricevcompany   t-posta   t-accendino   t-bardeloni
t-elettra   t-radiogon   t-marconifono   t-v2a   t-milanradio
t-aeriola   t-valvtrasm   t-valvricev   t-microfono   t-galena
t-fub1   t-fud2   t-gibson   t-handie   t-mobili
t-marconmagnus   t-ricevmarconi            

Basili Collection

In November 2013 the Basili family from Altopascio (Lucca) donated to the Marconi Foundation a collection of antique radios – 64 pieces in total – belonging to Paolo Basili. Shortly before his death, Mr Basili had in fact expressed his intention of leaving to the Marconi Museum “the fruit of his lifelong passion”, as testified by his daughter Natàlia.

On 25 April 2014, on the yearly occasion of the Marconi day, the donation was made official by Gabriele Falciasecca and Natàlia Basili.


 

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Exhibitions

For years the Guglielmo Marconi Foundation has been involved in a rich program of historical-scientific exhibitions dedicated to the history of radiocommunications. This kind of activity has been undertaken in collaboration with the Consortium “Science of Magic?”, a work team, among the first in Italy, to bring exhibitions with a scientific content and a distinct interactive character on tour.

In recent years, the staff of the Marconi Museum has collaborated in numerous initiatives presented in various Italian and foreign cities. Among these, we wish to point out the exhibition Marconi the genius the future pdf_button set up between December 2003 and March 2004 in the Palazzo di Re Enzo e del Podestà in collaboration with the Bologna city hall, and the exhibition 1901-2001 Marconi’s Transatlantic Challenge. The Birth of Long Distance Wireless Communication pdf_button. This latter event, produced entirely by the Marconi Museum thanks to the economic and organizational support of the council office for the Arts of the Emilia-Romagna Region, was presented at the ISCI in Montreal in August 2001 and successively went on tour in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Hamilton and Thunder Bay.

Between December 2009 and January 2010, in occasion of the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Guglielmo Marconi, the exhibition Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Prize Winner 1909-2009 pdf_button, sponsored by the Emilia-Romagna Region, the National Committee for the Marconi Nobel Prize Centenary and the Bologna city hall, was held in the Palazzo d'Accursio in Bologna.

During the year of the Centenary, a light and manageable exhibition entitled Guglielmo Marconi: the Wireless Pioneer was shown, changing format to best suit the needs of each space, in many Italian cities (San Remo, Candelo, Pavia, Cattolica etc.) and in numerous cultural centers and Italian embassies abroad (Budapest, Lisbon, Vilnius, Mar del Plata and many others).

In October 2010, in occasion of BergamoScienza, the exhibition From Marconi to cartoons weblink was organized at the ex Ateneo in Bergamo Alta, in collaboration with Walt Disney Television Italia.

In October-November 2011, another prestigious event – Genoa's “Science Festival” – presented the exhibition 150 years of Italian genius – Innovations that change the world, which focuses on scientists who lived and worked in a unified Italy and, naturally, among these, there is a section dedicated to Guglielmo Marconi. Conceived and organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and the Rosselli Foundation of Rome in collaboration with the Accademia dei Lincei, the exhibition also benefitted from a historical-technical consultancy from the Marconi Foundation. weblink

Of August 2012 is the marconian exhibition promoted by Golfo Aranci Town Hall in collaboration with Olbia ARI association, and organized by the Marconi Foundation.

Between February and May 2015, ITU (the International Telecommunication Union) has hosted in its prestigious seat of Geneva the bilingual exhibition Guglielmo Marconi: le pionnier de la transmission sans fil / the wireless pioneer, organized and edited by the Marconi Foundation, with the support of Ugo Bordoni Foundation and Rai Way. weblink

In occasion of the 2015 EXPO in Milan, in the first couple of days a Marconi location was activated in Piazzetta Italia. weblink

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Donations

In the side menu the either complete or partial collections donated to the Marconi Museum by private citizens or institutions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Bigazzi Family

In June of 2015 the Bigazzi Family, in memory of Maurizio, donated to Marconi Foundation a functioning replica with components of that time made by Maurizio Bigazzi himself.

 

A complex of spark transmitters for radiotelegraphy (Marconi system) used in the first experiments in Italy and in England in the 1896-1898s.

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Francesco Paresceparesce francesco

Marconi was the right man in the right place at the right time. He was the right man because he had the ideal combination of personal characteristics for the job: persistence, daring, technical ability, charisma and flair for public relations.



 

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