Centro Storico Fiat

Centro Storico Fiat in Turin displays Fiat’s automotive history, including iconic cars and an extensive archive.

Planning your visit

The Centro Storico Fiat is the company's own historical archive and museum, and Turin is inseparable from it — Fiat effectively built the modern city, drawing hundreds of thousands of workers north from southern Italy in the postwar decades and shaping its politics, geography and culture. The collection covers that: cars from the 1899 founding onward, including the 500 Topolino and the Nuova 500 that motorised Italy, alongside aircraft engines, trams, marine engines and household appliances the company produced.

The archive material is the other half — drawings, advertising, photographs and documents tracing an industrial concern that at its height was among the largest in Europe.

The Lingotto district nearby is the essential companion. The former Lingotto factory, built in the 1920s with a test track on the roof, was the most advanced car plant in the world when it opened; Renzo Piano converted it into a shopping centre, hotel and concert hall, and the rooftop track survives and can be walked. The Pinacoteca Agnelli gallery sits on top of it.

Bookable options combine the museum with the Lingotto district, which is the pairing that makes the industrial history legible rather than abstract. Access to the Centro Storico is generally by appointment. Current availability is shown below.