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Pics: Visited the Alfa Romeo Museum in Milan, Italy

9th January 2025, 12:11 by Ananth Iyer

It was quite a good museum which, unlike many others, did focus on the work by their styling partners and proudly presented them too.

BHPian 14000rpm recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

Excerpt from my Summer '24 Italian Roadtrip as precursor.

Quote from BHPian 14000rpm:

Day 15. Milan
...The Original original plan included a half day visit to the Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese area of Milan and hence I choose a hotel in that vicinity. With a day short, we took it easy and started the day late with the Alfa Museum being the only agenda. Finally I was having my agenda finding a place. Or so I thought. My Italian Colleague, who has lived in Milan all her life, called me and suggested some other shopping destinations near Arese. I started to see my agenda quickly collapsing. My 8 yr old daughter is usually the swing voter in the family. Fortunately she likes cars. Unfortunately, Like the mom, she likes Shopping more than cars.

I was forced to drive past the Alfa Museum to the shopping center..

After being so close yet so far to the Alfa Romeo Museum last time around, I had decided to make some time during my next work trip to Milan. Got lucky that a 3 day work trip came up in November- sooner than I thought.

Although I finished my meetings on Day 2, I took my return flight towards EoD of day 3 just so I didn't have to rush through the time I had for myself.

Had breakfast, checked out and Uber'd my way to Museo Storico Alfa Romeo.

Different folk have different Halo cars in their memory that connects them to certain Brands. The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione happens to be one of my all time favorites just for the way it looks. Simply Gorgeous. The closest I had some to seeing one in-person was in the Motorworld Center in Munich. Being aware that the Alfa Museum had one, I just had to go there and spent some time ogling at it.

Alfa did not hide their masterpiece deep inside to find after a Labyrinth of halls like a IKEA center. No No. They put their pride and joy right up front at the entrance.
My joy knew no bounds. Spent a lot of time appreciating every single line. Best part, this was even before buying a ticket to the Museum !