Modena’s new Enzo Ferrari Museum opened by Luca di Montezemolo and Piero Ferrari
Posted: 18.02.2014
Source: Ferrari
Modena, 18 February – The new Enzo Ferrari Museum (MEF) was opened today in Modena by Luca di Montezemolo and Piero Ferrari, the son of the man who started off the amazing story of a marque recognised today as the strongest in the world.
The choice of 18 February for the reopening of the MEF was in recognition of the anniversary of Enzo Ferrari’s birth on 18 February 1898.
The new life of the spectacular museum has begun with the large and beautiful main wing: here, as well as seeing the most important cars in the history of the Ferrari driver, constructor and creator of the Scuderia, you go into a veritable “time machine” that will take visitors through 100 years of history via multiple projections that will immerse the pubic in images, sounds and emotions. The 18 projectors weave together the history of Modena motoring, the story of Enzo Ferrari and his deeds and the world in which it all happened.
Art, technology, design, battles and new hopes make up the setting for the triumphs of the great drivers and the most outstanding scarlet cars.
The MEF, which has been entrusted to Ferrari by the Foundation owning the building – made up of the Modena institutions: Commune, Province, Chamber of Commerce and Automobile Club, with the significant support of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation – further enriches the area’s attractions that are already numerous, starting with the Ferrari Museum in Maranello.
From today the two Ferrari museums, which are open every day of the year except for Christmas and the New Year, complement each other in a perfect way: in Modena there’s the story of the man who created everything and the cars of his time. In Maranello there’s the Ferrari of today and tomorrow, presented via a past of success on the track and the roads.
New Enzo Ferrari Museum (MEF) reopens tomorrow
Posted: 17.02.2014
Source: Ferrari
Modena, 17 February – The Enzo Ferrari Museum (MEF) will reopen tomorrow, displaying its new focus which is aimed at celebrating Enzo Ferrari and the values of the Modena area.
The renovations have begun with the main wing, which has been transformed into a kind of “time machine” where it is possible to relive nearly 100 years of history, progress, racing, extraordinary cars and passion.
Visitors will be immersed in an emotional film projected all around them that will offer a precise historic and emotional value to the cars on show via the deeds of the protagonists. It will make for a unique and engrossing introduction to a world that will be full of surprises and tug at the heart strings of those watching.
The Museum’s new management Ferrari SpA, which is working in an open and positive way together with the Casa Natale Foundation and with the Modena institutions, will thus offer a first view of its renovations. These will be followed by a reworking of the Casa Natale and improvements to the museum’s outside areas.
From today visitors will be able to go into the Casa Natale through the gate with the marble staircase that Enzo Ferrari often recalled, to grasp immediately the spirit of an age and the extraordinary vision of a man who knew how to conquer the world, starting from a hard-working office near the railway station.
From the afternoon of Tuesday 18 February until Sunday 23 February residents of Modena and the surrounding area will be able to benefit from a reduced entrance price of € 9 or € 5 for children from 6 to 18 years old.