Fisogni Museum 1/2 vintage petrol - gas pumps, old tin signs, classic cars and much more..
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
- Vintage petrol and gas pumps, old tin signs, classic cars meetings and much more petroliana..
www.museo-fisogni.org
One day in the early Sixties, in the course of my daily duties, I chanced upon an old five-liter, double-vessel Bergomi gasoline pump, abandoned in a sand quarry, in pitiable condition.
I decided immediately to recuperate and restore it, and since that moment more than thirty years ago, work and hobby now intermingled, I have been able to put together a collection which the experts of industrial art judge to be unique and particularly rich.
Now that the rather haphazardly assembled collection has been organized and properly structured, I can take the time to formally thank Alfredo Cattaneo, who helped me in my researches, and Giuseppe Croce who, more concretely, executed the restoration work.
And here I would allow myself some observations. The signs, the gasoline cans, the globes, the toys and the other objects which form the supporting cast for the true stars of the museum - the pumps themselves - do not serve merely as pleasing esthetic appendages to the industrial arts, but are important witnesses to the rapidity of change.
Industrial production, by its nature, quickly consumes its own products in order to make way for newer, more beautiful, more efficient ones.
To recuperate the past; to document the history of technical improvements; to confer, among other things, an esthetic dignity often unacknowledged as a result of a prejudice against the serial production of industrial objects - these have been the objectives of the past thirty years of impassioned research, and they remain as such even now that the disposition of the collection in a museum context allows a much clearer historical and esthetic reading of the collection as a whole, and of the individual objects of which it is constituted.
awesome
Having grown up in a "refinery town", I've developed a fascination with oil-company logos such as Sinclair's dinosaur, Gulf's orange disk, Mobil's red Pegasus, etc.
Congratulations Mr. Fisogni. Your Museum is amazing. I hope to visit it one day. I love Petroliana too. From Rio Brazil.
just GREAT i specialy like the old email panel,this place is paradise
i beleive your lockated not so far from switzerland in italy rigth?
This is the new exhibition in Tradate (VA), Italy 20km from Switzerland:
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i like to visite your place let me know if possible
Sure. The museum is located in Tradate (VA). Italy
www.museo-fisogni.org
Open Sundays 09:00 - 11:00 AM or by appointment
Ciao,soon we got weather ok in jura switzerland for motorbike riding,i will contact you to organize my visite off your damned nice collection,unfortunatly via youtube i can not send you pictures off my enamail signes collection