The Ferrari museum is the last part of our series on our days at Maranello, and we’re happy to share this gallery with you after having toured the Fiorano garage, the Ferrari production line and the Ferrari personalisation atelier. The museum is the height of any tour of Maranello because it houses the Ferraris of bygone days, and shows us the important evolution of this renowned brand to becoming one of the top luxury and race car manufacturers in the world today.

The Ferrari museum is full of impressive pieces - from F1 racing helmet memorabilia, to the open cockpit cars that have made history. The Ferrari Enzo, placed on its own in perfect light and looking fantastically modern, is quite a head turner, and is only part of every corner of a museum which proudly speaks of a prestigious tradition.

The walk down memory lane in the Ferrari Museum is likely to give you plenty of emotions at the least, and complete goosebumps at the most. The museum isn’t big, but what it contains and even just the mere suggestion of some of the pieces on display are its strengths - in fact some exhibits are enough to be a museum on their own for the stories they tell. We’ll leave you this gallery of images and the words of Enzo himself: “The best Ferrari ever to be produced is the next one.”

A day at Maranello: Ferrari museum gallery

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It’s quite hard to describe what a full immersion in the world of Ferrari might mean. For our Italian colleagues at Autoblog.it, the description is about their home company’s capacity to surprise - to really break the mould of what the world expects from supercars. Others might disagree although this year’s Ferrari FF definitely was along the lines of Ferrari playing a field all its own.

In any case in our day at Maranello, for us visiting the Ferrari production lines, after the Corse Clienti department, with its assembly operations seen in these pics, is a privileged moment to see the inside of one of the world’s legendary car manufacturers. So much history has rolled off these lines that if you try to think about it, it’s overwhelming.

Seeing Ferrari production facilities we should probably tell the story in institutional terms - talking of numbers, prizes, excellence, technology, work-life balance and production operations. But with all respect to Ferrari, it seems frankly inadequate. How can you use those kinds of parameters to relate what you see when you turn around and suddenly something jumps out at you, like a kind of exotic mirage?

A day at Maranello: Ferrari production and nuova meccanica pics

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