Re: Future of Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese?

[George Graves <gmgraves@domain.elided>]

On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 02:17 PM, alfa-digest wrote:


Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:44:20 -0400
From: <maxid@domain.elided>
Subject: Future of Alfa Romeo Museum in Arese?

Now that Alfa Romeo is moving out of the factory in Arese I am wondering
whether this means that the days of the museum are counted. I have
never been
to the museum so I don't know if it is on the same grounds as the
factory.
1) Is the museum on the same grounds as the factory?
2) Does anybody know what Fiat Auto plans to do with the museum in the
near
future?
Regards,
Sonny 91 164 S, Baltimore



Yes, the Museo Storico  is most assuredly on the factory grounds. In 
fact, one has to pass through a security gate and an office building to 
get to it. While I was there last fall, I was told by the Fiat press 
liaison person that Fiat plans to relocate the museum to downtown Milan 
in 2003. However, at the time, Fiat was planning on decommissioning the 
site and tearing the actual factory down. Now, since Alfa as been 
"spun-off" from Fiat as a semi-autonomous division, it is likely that 
Alfa will more or less go its own way, unhampered by having to share 
platforms with Fiat/Lancia. This said, there are some European auto 
journalists who now think that Alfa will move BACK to Arese and begin 
production there again. So whether the move to relocate the museum is 
still on or not, is anybody's guess.

George Graves
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