The Ducati Museum is designed to narrate the history of the company along four different routes that guide the visitor from its origins to the present day. 

The factory plant was inaugurated in 1936 when the Ducati family chose Borgo Panigale as the location to transfer the production of the Manens capacitor which, until then, was produced initially in the basement of a building located in Via Collegio di Spagna in the center of Bologna, and later in the villa owned by the Ducati family, in Via Guidotti. Since then this is Ducati’s main headquarters where the Ducati motorcycles are designed, assembled and shipped all over the world.

Since then this is Ducati’s main headquarters where the Ducati motorcycles are designed, assembled and shipped all over the world.

Along the route inside the factory, you will be escorted by one of our official guides who will show you how our motorcycles are created. 

You will pass through the machining department (where distribution shafts and crankshafts are prepared in a continuous cycle); the engine assembly area (where the V4 engine assembly line is located); you will be able to immerse yourself in the motorcycle assembly process through a video that illustrates its different stages, which are deepened by the guide's explanation, and enter the Finitura e Delibera estetica area where the motorcycles are prepared to be shipped.

The route and duration of the visit may be subject to change due to production requirements.

The Emilia Romagna region was formed by the merging together of different yet complementary areas. Between the lapping waves of the Adriatic Sea and the peaks of the Apennines lies a wonderful variety of history, traditions and landscapes.

Museum entry

The Museum entry ticket allows the access in the time slot purchased and the permanence inside the Museum rooms for the desired duration. Closing time 6:00pm.

Entry is guaranteed to those with booking and ticket purchased online.

Open

• Mondays to Sundays 9:00am-6:00pm

Closed

• Wednesdays
• December 24th-26th 2024 included
• December 31st 2024
• January 1st 2025
• April 20th 2025
• April 21st 2025

For further closures, check the availability by clicking on "Buy a ticket"

Last entry: 30 minutes before closing time.

Scroll down and read the requirements to come for visiting us.

The Factory Experience ticket includes a guided tour of the production at the time selected during the purchase and the admission to the Museum with permanence inside its rooms for the desired duration. Closing time 6:00pm.

Entry is guaranteed to those with booking and ticket purchased online.

The purchase of a ticket entitles the holder to only one visit, even during the same day.

Guided tours in English are available:

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 9:15am and 3:45pm.
The route and duration of the visit may be subject to change due to production requirements.

For safety reasons, visitors are required to wear closed shoes while visiting the factory.

Not available on:

• Wednesdays
• Saturdays
• Sundays

and  

• December 9th 2024
• December 20th – January 6th included

For further closures, check the availability by clicking on "Buy a ticket

For groups of 11 up to 60 participants, it is possible to organise visits on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 11am and 1.45pm.

Click here and fill in the form to submit your visit request.

Address: Ducati Motor Holding - Via Antonio Cavalieri Ducati, 3 - Bologna.  

• Car/motorbike

Plan your trip with the navigator/Google Maps etc. Our address is: Ducati Motor Holding - Via Antonio Cavalieri Ducati, 3 - Bologna. Free public parking is available in the vicinity of the company .  

• From Bologna Central Train Station

- taxi (about 20 minutes)

- bus (about 40 minutes). From Bologna Central Station in front of the main entrance take line number 36 direction Barca or 39 peripheral left. Get off at the first stop in Via Lame and from the same stop take line number 23 in the direction of Via Normandia - Borgo Panigale. Get off at the "Borgo Panigale - Ducati Museum" stop. Bus timetable.

- train (about 10 minutes) departing from the West platform with destination Porretta Terme or Vignola. Get off at Borgo Panigale station, on the right, 20 meters up the stairs that lead to the overpass. At the top of the ramps is the bus stop. Take line 23 towards Via Normandia - Borgo Panigale and get off at the stop, "Borgo Panigale - Museo Ducati".

Via Cavalieri Ducati is located 50 meters ahead on the left. Ducati Moto Holding is about 200 meters away, on the right side of the street.

Click here to plan your trip by train link a Trenitalia-Tper.

• From Guglielmo Marconi Bologna BLQ airport

Ducati is about 4 km away. Take a taxi from the parking lot located at the exit of the Arrivals terminal.

Bologna taxi service
Cotabo tel. + 39 051 372727 | App Taxi Click Easy
CO.SE.PU.RI tel. + 39 051 519090
SACA tel. + 39 6349444
Taxi cat tel. + 39 051 534141

A new experience offered by the Ducati Museum.

A tour guided by the museum curator to discover unpublished stories and unknown anecdotes, a unique opportunity to learn about the company history, its personalities and the motorbikes that have made it famous all over the world.

The experience is available for a maximum of 12 people

Available on Saturdays

• January 18th
• February 8th
• March 15th
• April 12th
• May 24th

Timetable and language

• 10:30 a.m. – English 
• 03:00 p.m. - Italian  

Full price

• € 38

For reductions and gratuities click here