The Scooter and Lambretta Museum was founded by Vittorio Tessera (founder of Casa Lambretta), something inexplicable happens in him at the age of 15 ... the Lambretta enters his heart.
Thanks to the help of his brother Gaetano, he began the search to buy one, and after great difficulties he found a model 125 LD from 1953 from an elderly lady.
It is the beginning of a great passion and an important project: to create a complete collection of Lambrettas in all its variations.
The collection continues to grow, the first Lambretta 125 B in 1978 and then the first 125A with sidecar. The activity of the newborn Club Lambretta, the only one of its kind in Italy, begins to bear fruit, and at the same time, like a dream come true, at the age of 19 it opens its scooter and Lambretta restoration workshop, the first in Italy to specialize in this sector.
Parallel to the purchase of specimens for the collection, Vittorio Tessera is dedicated to researching all the historical heritage inherent in scooters: catalogs, brochures, drawings, photographs and films. Among the most important findings, the acquisition of the Innocenti historical archive certainly deserves. It all stems from the information of a friend of his who had seen some Lambrettas in an abandoned building near the Innocenti factory. After umpteenth attempts the doors open and finally the treasure is revealed: various Lambretta prototypes, unique models, construction drawings, films and everything a collector can imagine ...
The Museum is organized into sectors: the first groups the vehicles produced up to the Second World War, the second the scooters built between 1945 and 1972, the third the Innocenti production and the fourth the most representative Vespa models.
In addition to numerous racing models, one-of-a-kind examples of great historical value are visible, such as the oldest Lambretta in the world (the 125A chassis n.2), the 1949 125 FB motorcycle for the sale of ice cream and the plated Lambretta 175 TV 3 gold made for the American actress Jayne Mansfield. Also of great interest is the section of special versions such as the Lambretta LD from Coca Cola or the 150 Special from the New York Police or the 150 LI 2s from the 1960 Rome Olympics game.
The Lambretta sector also includes the Innocenti historical archive which consists of: over 5.000 photographic negatives, 45 advertising films, the whole series of original construction drawings, catalogs and brochures of the time.
