The Marconi Museum is dedicated to the origins and developments of radiocommunications and is located at Villa Griffone, the former residence of the Marconi family, where the young inventor carried out his first experiments.
Thanks to the integration of historical equipment, hypertexts, film clips and interactive devices, visitors are offered the possibility of retracing the events that have marked the inventor’s life and education. Special focus is given to the period elapsing 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 shown in various “exhibition islands” dedicated to several fundamental stages in the history of electricity, to precursors of the history of radio, and to naval applications of Marconi’s invention. In the area devoted to broadcasting several instruments developed for the transmission of speech and music, starting from WW1, are shown.
The exhibition also features some interesting documents concerning Guglielmo Marconi’s education and training (displayed in the famous ‘silkworm room’), as well as his career as a businessman in the company he established in 1897 and which is still named after him.
Among the activities promoted by the museum is a popular scientific programme addressed to schools that includes a workshop offering educational experiments concerning the history of electricity, electromagnetism and telecommunications.
Villa Griffone, the place where radio communications were born, awaits its visitors with its glamour of legend and the most modern exhibition techniques.