Museum
Itinerary
The early years
A focus on the future and industrialisation, the birth of the automobile and the first coffee machines in the quintessential Art Nouveau Style Discover >
The Interwar Period and the Rationalism
Regimes and colonial wars usher in difficult years. New establishments open. Channelling the rationalist style of the era, Giuseppe Cimbali - a hydraulic copper worker - builds new coffee machines Discover >
The Postwar years and the invention of the lever
Recovery began in the early 1950s, leading to a thirst for innovation. The lever technology revolution gets underway and the café is born Discover >
The ’60s and ’70s: the design boom
Italy discovers the good life: travel, supermarkets and growing sales of TVs and washing machines Coffee machines become design pieces Discover >
The ’80s and ’90s: the international dimension
Coffee machines become a symbol of Italian production and the whole world drinks espresso “the Italian way” Discover >
The millenium we live in: flexibility and responsibility
The widespread consumption of coffee at global level and the changes in social dynamics have impacted the way the social beverage par excellence is consumed. Discover >
Lab: Heritage, tech and the future in a cup
Memory and the future intermingle in the icons of time. Between new and old galaxies of knowledge to explore, the future is concealed within the past. Discover >


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