Ferrari Galleria

The Ferrari Museum, also called Galleria Ferrari, is a MUST visit if you also love Ferrari!!

Ferrari Galleria
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From Kastrup airport it's a 2 hour flight to an airport a little north of Milan. We're now standing at the car rental desk in the airport to pick up the keys to the car that will take us to Maranello, home town of the rearing horse. The weather says summer 2007. We get the keys and head off to the parking lot to find the car. A few minutes later we're sitting in the car. The first thing you do is check whether the air conditioning works. It does, luckily. So, out onto the motorway and south towards Ferrari Galleria.

The distance is only about 240 km. First to Modena and then the last few km to Maranello. We come in from the north along Via Giardini. Just before the entrance to the town, the road crosses a bridge, where the Ferrari sound sings from the Fiorano Circuit.

The road changes name to Via Nazionale Abetone Inferiore, and further along we pass the world famous main entrance to Ferrari on the left. We turn right onto Via Dino Ferrari. Shortly after, on the left, lies the Ferrari Museum / Ferrari Galleria.

We park the car, and as we walk towards the entrance, the conversation turns to which cars are behind these walls. It's answered shortly after. We're now inside the Ferrari Museum among historic F1 cars and sports cars.

On the ground floor, a stage is set up with a Ferrari F1 from 2002 on a kind of pit lane, followed by 2 other F1 cars. A podium with monitors for watching the race stands in the background against the wall. Next to the rearmost F1 car is an F1 312T4 from 1979.

In the middle of the room, a track garage look has been built. In the first garage is an F1 from 2004, a stack of tyres, a lift trolley, an engine on a rolling table, and a toolbox behind the F1 car with a monitor sitting on top. In the second garage stands Niki Lauda's Ferrari F1 312T from 1975.

Between the garages is an info sign stating that Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen are driving for Ferrari in 2007. In front of the sign are 4 engines mounted on pedestals.

On the opposite side of the room are the Ferrari oldies: a Ferrari-Lancia D50, a Ferrari 500 Mondial, plus several others. It's clear that safety wasn't the top priority back then. But they're fascinating nonetheless.

The first floor of the Ferrari Museum is for sports cars. On the stairs up there's a landing with an F430 Spider. First you see an Enzo Ferrari. The car is gorgeous, muscular, radiating speed, fitted with both paddle shift, ceramic brake discs and a carbon fibre body.

Against the wall in Ferrari Galleria stand the red F50s next to a Testarossa, 2 gorgeous examples. In the middle of the room sits a Dino 206 GT. The model, it's said, was meant to appeal to a different customer segment, where the price of a sports car was more affordable, without harming Ferrari's brand. Next to the Dino stands a BB512, a 5L V12 with 360 hp, top speed 303 km/h, and a black 275 GTB.

Along the back wall is a display of various engines with and without turbo, mounted on pedestals to make them easier to view. In front of them, a display case with disassembled engine parts. On the wall behind the engines hang various F1 monocoques in 1/3 scale for wind tunnel testing.

In front of the display case is a red Ferrari 166MM. The engine is a 2L V12 with 140 hp. The car delivered a top speed of 220 km/h. It was used for endurance racing in Ferrari's early days. A blue 166 Inter from 1948 is placed next to it.

In an adjoining room stand a stunning red 250 GT California from 1957, as well as a cream-white Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupé.

It's said that the reason for starting Ferrari was so that Enzo Ferrari could finance his passion for racing.

We spent a couple of hours at the Ferrari Museum / Ferrari Galleria. Before we leave Maranello, we head over to the Fiorano Circuit to see a bit of Ferrari test driving. You really shouldn't cheat yourself out of this if you're visiting Ferrari Galleria anyway.

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