Ducati makes history

Ducati is a treasure to be protected for the future memory of posterity and for the benefit of those present. It was the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities that put it down in black and white. The historical archive and the museum set up by the Borgo Panigale company have become assets of historical and cultural interest of the Bolognese territory. Not only the documents dating back over 50 years ago, also the collection of engines and motorcycles from 1946 to today.
Le official reasons are multiple: “Both the historical archive and the Ducati museum respond to the canons of company archives, characterized by various types of documents and products, such as for example engines and motorcycles, which represent a document of the company activity which, as the of time becomes a historical testimony. The large archive consisting of documents from the Ducati Technical Office and the collection of engines and motorbikes preciously kept inside the Ducati Museum testify and tell the story of Ducati's activity and production from 1946 to the present day, an active and highly interesting part of both for local, Italian and international contemporary history".
It becomes possible to take a leap back in time to 4 July 1926 when Adriano, Bruno and Marcello Cavalieri Ducati laid the foundations for the production of two wheels inside the factory which was bombed and destroyed during the Second World War. You can "visit" Giuseppe Montano, the Ducati man who, in the sixties, laid the foundations for the team's entry into sporting competitions; and to the couple of owners of Cagiva, Carlo and Gianfranco Castiglioni, who made the company their own and then resold it. After the listing on the stock exchange as Ducati Motor Holding spa in the hands of the Texas Pacific Group, the Bonomi family is now behind the Ducati name. From a motoring point of view, space, among many, for Multistrada 1200, to the unforgotten diavel and to the recent one 1199 Panigale with which the Emilian club tries to play a leading role in 2012.
The heritage is in the hands of the Ducati Foundation or the president Gianluigi Mengoli and the curator of the museum Livio Lodi.