The Marconi Museum can be visited only by guided tour. The visit lasts about an hour and a half / two hours.

The cost of the visit is 7 euro (for students 3 euro).

Altre tariffe e agevolazioni:

Visiting hours:

• working days: reservation required, guided tours in the morning or early afternoon, hours may be agreed on reservation;
• Sundays: guided tours at 10am (reservation required for large groups).

School groups: the visit is recommended after the fifth year of primary school. They are provided for different levels of presentation and depth depending on the degree and school address.

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In addition to the Marconi Museum and the Fondazione G. Marconi, Villa Griffone also houses a Radio Communication research centre where researchers from the University of Bologna and from the Ugo Bordoni Foundation have their offices. Partly for this reason Villa Griffone has neither refreshment areas nor facilities for visitors.

Buses with more than 30 people cannot enter Villa Griffone parking, another area at the bottom of the villa (Piazzale del Mausoleo, on the Strada Porrettana) is at their complete disposal.

Dogs and the like, even if on a leash, are not allowed in the Museum.

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  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 . 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 , 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  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. 

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. 

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

The Guglielmo Marconi Foundation, for the purpose of scientific cataloguing, intends to conduct a census of the radio apparatuses fabricated by Marconi Companies still in existence today and found in museums or in Italian collections. The Foundation kindly asks for the collaboration of all owners and guarantees – to whoever requests it – the privacy of all personal data.

The objective is to delineate a map that shows the current number of such apparatuses in Italy, including those that have been produced by satellite Companies or by Marconi Companies abroad.

Once complete, the map will be published online and updated periodically (always respecting any requests of privacy).

The next step will be a publication on the topic, while, in prospect, the Foundation is considering the possibility of organizing an exhibition.

It is important to underline that the census does not have a commercial scope and that the data registered will be used exclusively to enrich the historical-scientific heritage relative to Guglielmo Marconi.

By compiling the form, Marconi radio owners will become part of that “infinite” research that Marconi himself practiced with incomparable tenacity and efficacy.

Thanks to the integration of historical equipment, hypertexts, film clips and interactive devices, visitors are offered the possibility of retracing the events that marked Guglielmo Marconi’s training and life. Special focus is given to the period spanning from 1895 (first experiments of wireless telegraphy) to 1901 (transmission of the first radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean).

The museum houses a series of accurate working replicas of 19th century scientific equipment displayed in various “exhibition islands” dedicated to some of the fundamental stages in the history of electricity, from the precursors of the history of the radio to naval applications of Marconi’s invention. In the area devoted to broadcasting, several instruments developed for the transmission of speech and music in the 20th century are shown. The exhibition also features some interesting documents concerning Guglielmo Marconi’s education (displayed in the famous "silkworm room"), as well as his career as a businessman in the company he established in 1897 and which still bears his name.

Among the many activities promoted by the museum, there is a scientific program addressed to schools that includes a workshop which offers educational experiments concerning the history of electricity, electromagnetism and telecommunications.

Villa Griffone, the place of origin of radio communications, awaits its visitors with the appeal of the legend as well as modern exhibition displays.

an interview with Barbara Valotti
[italian]