Mille Miglia Museum is dedicated to the Mille Miglia historical car race.
The museum of the legendary race “Mille Miglia” is situated inside the Monastery of Saint Eufemia, a beautiful building complex of immense archaeological, historical and architectural value. The good position and the important history of the building give to the Mille Miglia Museum further prestige.
Mille Miglia Museum, open to the public since 10th November 2004, has been conceived to meet the need for hearing living witness to the Mille Miglia, Brescia’s legendary car race.
The idea of a museum dedicated to the Red Arrow was launched and implemented by the Associazione Museo della Mille Miglia Città di Brescia, expressly formed by a few “friends” together with the Automobil Club of Brescia.
The Museum dedicated to the Mille Miglia competition was born to carry out an ambitious cultural and educational project: to help visitors to appreciate such an extraordinary sporting event while illustrating a cross section of Italian culture, history and social customs between 1927 to 1957, also through description and presentations of monuments and places, towns and regions, included edition after edition in the route of this epoch making event.
The Museum pathway consists in nine time
sections (seven devoted to the 1927-1957 Mille Miglia, one to the 1958-1961 Mille Miglia and one to the contemporary Mille Miglia).
Each section is provided with a computer station offering information, race results and images, as well as a few screens where original filmed sequences can be viewed.
The route it is represented from the entrance to the exit by a red walkway meandering across all the sections of the museum.
On the museum tour a few display boards of the same shape but of different colours explain respectively the meaning of the section, the story of those years’ Mille Miglia and the general history of the period.
Cars and drivers’ images represent, however, the real protagonists of the exhibition. Many of them are visible at various points along the walkway. |
