Officina Rancilio 1926 is a museum owned by the Rancilio family, a cultural space created with the aim of promoting, preserving and enhancing the historical heritage, the collection and the photographic archive of the company and the family.
The museum was founded in 2010 as Rancilio Group's business museum and was the first Italian museum in the coffee machine sector. When the Rancilio family sold the company in 2013, they wanted to keep the museum and its historical heritage.
The museum's heritage today includes: sixty historical machines produced by Rancilio from 1927 to 1980 and twenty vintage grinders, a historical archive of images and documents that tell the history of the family and the company, the evolution of Rancilio's advertising, historical images of coffee machines, photographs of sports events organized and sponsored by Rancilio.
The exhibition centre, of about 150 square metres, is located in the centre of Parabiago, in Via Galeazzi 18-22. In the same place where Roberto Rancilio opened his first mechanical workshop in 1926 under the name "Officina Rancilio". The following year the first Rancilio brand coffee machine for bars came out of that workshop: the Regina.
The Museum is the venue for temporary exhibitions and offers educational paths for schools of different levels, it also hosts conferences, meetings and lectures of various local associations.
It is part of Museimpresa, the Italian Association of Archives and Business Museums promoted by Assolombarda and Confindustria.
