The Historical Museum of the Air Force

The Air Force Historical Museum is a museum located in aeronautical Vigna di Valle in the town of Bracciano (Rome), at the lake of the same name, where in 1908 it was built and flew the first Italian military airship.

Managed directly by the Italian Air Force, occupies the structures that were before the Aeronautical Research Centre and then, until 1945, the Centre for Experimental and seaplanes for naval armament, then the site of a department Hunting Marittima and then a group flight of the air rescue. [2] the museum, in addition to the aircraft and the engines that represent the evolution of the Air Force in Italy, houses important collections related photographic equipment, radio equipment, weapons, equipment on board individual and collective.

Upon completion you can admire numerous objects and memorabilia related to aeronautics most of them from private collections. While maintaining a typically address technical and historical part of the museum is devoted to the influence that has had aviation in figurative art, exhibiting works of futurist painters Pietro Annigoni, Giacomo Balla, Tato, and contemporary painting as the work of Flight PAPIER froissé Antonio Papasso.