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Museo del Patrimonio Industriale
Restored brick furnace displaying Bologna's industrial past, from water-powered silk mills to vintage toy pedal cars.
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This guide to the Museo del Patrimonio Industriale in Bologna follows the Giordani family, starting with blacksmith Raffaele Giordani hammering out an iron tricycle on a Bologna backstreet in 1875, with no notion he was founding a toy dynasty. It traces his son Pietro's move into prams and bicycles, and grandson Raffaele's first catalog in 1915, which added toy automobiles. The firm grew into a full factory on Via Nicolo Dall'Arca by 1932, run by hundreds of workers turning iron into rideable toys.
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