The Agusta Museum was not born as a museum of MV AGUSTA MOTOR SpA, but born from the desire of the Leonardo Group, owner of the AGUSTA brand in the helicopter sector.

With the end of the Second World War, Agusta finds itself in a stalemate due to the ban placed by the allies on the continuation of aeronautical production. Taking advantage of the boom in the motorcycle sector and the superiority of his knowledge in the mechanical sector, Domenico Agusta, now alone at the head of the company, decides to found a company for the production and marketing of motor vehicles. Thus, on 12 February 1945, Meccanica Verghera was born, producing over thirty models, in various versions, of great success.

But MV Agusta owes its fame and notoriety to the Racing Department. Established at the end of the 1940s, the Racing Department from 1952 to 1976 will be able to bring its drivers to the top step of the podium three thousand times !

In twenty-five years, 270 World Grand Prixs will be won, thanks to riders of the caliber of Leslie Graham, Carlo Ubbiali, Gary Hocking, Phil Read, Jhon Surtees, Tarquinio Provini, Mike Hailwood, Cecil Sanford and the unreachable Giacomo Agostini.

Despite the great successes, with the affirmation of the Company in the helicopter sector and the concomitant deep crisis in the motorcycle sector, in the 1977 season the racing activity was suspended and five years later, in 1982, the motorcycle activity of MV Agusta will cease.

The brand was acquired in 1992 by Cagiva of Schiranna (Varese); in August 2008 it passed to the Harley-Davidson group which in turn, in August 2010, sold it back to Claudio Castiglioni himself, former owner of the Cagiva brand. Today the company is in the hands of the Russian entrepreneur Timur Sardarov.