Museum
Museo Ducati
Motorcycle collection housed in the factory rebuilt from a WWII bombing raid, tracing a century of racing and road machines.
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About this audio guide
Museo Ducati in Bologna opens not with a motorcycle but a bombing raid: on the twelfth of October nineteen forty-four, American planes leveled the factory on this spot, then making precision optics and naval binoculars rather than bikes. The guide follows what was left standing and the improbable engine, built two hundred miles away by a lawyer and an engineer with no ties to Ducati, that gave the ruined company a reason to keep going. It traces how a stubby, barking little engine known as Cucciolo pulled the brand back from rubble.
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