Centro Storico Fiat (Fiat Historic Center), Turin

The Centro Storico Fiat (Fiat Historic Center) is a company museum and archive based in Turin. It exhibits cars, airplanes, trains, tractors, trucks, bicycles, washing machines, refrigerators with the Fiat brand. Scale models, reconstructions of parts of the production process, posters and advertising sketches complete the collection. The archival part preserves more than 5,000 linear meters of paper documents, 300,000 technical drawings, 5,000 volumes and magazines on motoring and industrial history, 6 million images, 200 hours of historical films. Of particular interest are the collections of the designers Dante Giacosa and Giuseppe Gabrielli.

The work of Alfredo Premoli, an appreciated exponent of Turin liberty, it was designed and built between 1904 and 1906 and inaugurated in 1907. It was a production and finishing workshop, shed, warehouse, representative office.

The idea of a museum and documentation center was born in 1961, on the wave of enthusiasm for the celebrations of the centenary of the unification of Italy. In operation since 1963, its halls hosted important events in the company's history, first of all the signing, on May 4, 1966, of the agreement which led to the construction of a factory in the Russian city of Togliatti to produce the Zhiguli , a version slightly modified of the Fiat 124 .

In 1999, on the occasion of the Fiat centenary, it was renovated and rearranged by the architects Gabetti and Isola.

In 2011, the spaces intended for the archives were quadrupled, a new consultation room was built, and the museum part was permanently open to the public, exclusively on Sundays.