Volandia Parco e Museo del Volo Malpensa, Lombardy, Italy
4.0 (1.211 reviews) Friday: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #1 in Province of Varese Speciality Museums • Children's Museums
For aviation buffs
Take a look around you - the walls are steeped in history, dreams and the future. You are at Volandia, where a wonderful exhibition itinerary takes you deep into the history of international aeronautics, with focus on the companies that have written the story of the province of Varese, the province with wings, and all of Lombardy and Italian industry.The exhibition is divided into five areas: forms of flight, fixed wing, rotary wing, model aircraft and the convertiplane. It tells the great history of flight in all its forms, from pioneer flights in hot-air balloons to the first aircraft in the early 1900s right through to the convertiplane, the perfect fusion of vertical and horizontal flight.The Park and Museum of Flight has plenty of indoor and outdoor areas for children, with space dedicated to the different age brackets. For older visitors there is the simulation area, library, historical archives (consultable online), convention room and film showings.The Volandia Store stocks a wealth of park and museum gifts and mascots and many other wonderful articles.As you walk around the park and museum you can listen to exciting adventures involving the aircraft on show told by volunteers of the “Friends of Volandia” association, whose members include fanatics and former workers at the aircraft companies. If you would like to join the association, just ask.. Members are easy to recognise in their red uniform.The Flight Café is the perfect place to take a break and have something to eat and drink.Volandia makes flight dreams and fun happen.Visit our website to discover our pavillon and the newly SPACE AREA.
Address
Via Per Tornavento 15, 21019, Somma Lombardo Italy
Mobile
Website
http://www.volandia.it
Working hours
Monday :
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM
Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 2:22
User Ratings
4.0 based on (1.211 reviews)
Reviews
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5GaryHadleigh 5:00 PM Jul 8, 2017
Worth a visit
Ok, so this museum has a bit of everything going on, cars, aircraft, enough models to keep your eyes busy for weeks and some amazing old machinery parked around the back. Its not slick and super stylish and to be honest needs a bit of TLC but there are some amazing bits of history in there if you take the time to look and its well worth it. Fortunately the time has been taken to add English translations to the majority of the exhibits which was appreciated, made it all the more interesting for us. I should think it would keep kids happy for hours let alone the adults, loads of space and exhibits to wander through and ponder over. Worth a visit rain or shine. To the staff, keep up the good work.
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4Magic Carpet Airways 5:00 PM Oct 3, 2016
The site of the original Caprioni aircraft factory, now a museum
This is the site of the first ever flight of a powered aircraft by the Italian aviator, Caprioni. The Caprioni CA1 is preserved here along with the original hanger building. Later this became the site for the Caprioni aircraft factory which built aircraft during WW1 -WW2. There are many different aircraft on display here, including some flight simulators which you can try out. The original feel of the factory is still present even though much of the equipment, materials and workforce have disappeared into history. You can get right up to most of the aircraft to look into the cockpits or for close up photography. The museum has a shop and a cafeteria. I spent a good four hours here and still did not see all of the exhibits. The museum is a short walk ( ten minutes) from the terminal 1 at Malpensa Airport, and is well sign-posted from door 17, at the departures level.
