MAUTO, Lavazza Museum, Lingotto and Risorgimento: Tickets, Tours and Prices

MAUTO, the Automobile Museum in Turin: what you see and how to get there

The National Automobile Museum, known across the city as MAUTO, shows more than 200 original vehicles from over 80 makes, from motorised carriages of the 1890s to racing Ferraris, on three floors with a theatrical layout: the cars are not lined up but set into scenes with light, sound and projections. The section on Turin's coachbuilders, Pininfarina, Bertone and Giugiaro, explains why car design worldwide speaks Piedmontese. Allow two hours.

The museum is at Corso Unità d'Italia 40 in the Lingotto district, a quarter of an hour on foot from Lingotto metro station and on the same axis as the former FIAT factory, which is why MAUTO and Lingotto belong in the same half-day. Buses 35 and 1 and line B of the hop-on hop-off stop at the entrance.

Lavazza Museum at the Nuvola: interactive route, tasting and booking

The Lavazza Museum sits on the ground floor of the Nuvola, the group's headquarters at Via Bologna 32 in the Aurora district north of Porta Palazzo. Lavazza began in Turin in 1895 as a grocery on Via San Tommaso and the route through five areas tells how that shop produced the first branded coffee blend, the calendar, the Carosello adverts and the espresso machine that flew to the Space Station. Allow a generous hour.

Tickets sit in the €10–12* band and are sold by time slot on Tiqets or on the museum site; closed on Mondays, with a corporate calendar to check the day before. GetYourGuide lists a private skip-the-line tour from €60–90*. It is ten minutes by tram or bus from Porta Palazzo or a 20-minute walk through Borgo Dora; if coffee interests you more than museums, look at the food tours that call at the historic cafés in the centre.

FIAT in Turin: Lingotto, the rooftop track, Pinacoteca Agnelli and Centro Storico Fiat

Anyone searching for the "FIAT museum" finds three different things. The first is the Lingotto, the 1923 factory by engineer Mattè-Trucco: five floors up which cars climbed spiral ramps to the rooftop test track, a loop of over a kilometre with banked curves where the Minis of The Italian Job raced in 1969. The second, up on the roof, is the Pinacoteca Agnelli, with seven Matisse canvases, views by Canaletto and Bellotto, Modigliani, Picasso and Canova, from which you step out onto Pista 500, now a hanging garden with art installations: the track is normally free during Pinacoteca hours, the gallery costs €10–15*, check the site.

The third is the Centro Storico Fiat at Via Chiabrera 20, the company's first works of 1900, with cars, aircraft, engines and posters open almost only with a guide and on limited dates: the GetYourGuide guided tour lasts an hour and costs €20–30*.

National Risorgimento Museum in Palazzo Carignano

The Risorgimento Museum is in Palazzo Carignano, the brick baroque palace by Guarino Guarini where Vittorio Emanuele II was born in 1820 and where the first Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy met in 1861. The strongest room is the chamber of the Subalpine Parliament, kept with its wooden benches and red velvet, a few metres from the Italian Parliament hall that was built and never used because the capital moved to Florence. Allow an hour and a half; tickets €10–12*, closed Mondays, included in the Torino+Piemonte Card.

It is two minutes from the Egyptian Museum and Piazza Castello, the easiest of the four to slot into a one-day itinerary without transport. The GetYourGuide tour (€40–60*) pairs it with a historic café such as Fiorio or Baratti & Milano, where Piedmontese deputies argued over a bicerin.

Prices, the Torino+Piemonte Card and how to combine the four museums

Single tickets all sit in the €10–15* band, so the only question is whether to buy the Torino+Piemonte Card: it costs €29–58* depending on length, normally covers all four on top of the Egyptian Museum and the royal residences, and pays from three museums in two days. The list changes: check our tickets and passes page, and remember that the Lavazza Museum time slot must be booked even with the Card.

Geography first: Risorgimento is in the centre, MAUTO and Lingotto are in the south on metro line 1 (Lingotto stop, 10 minutes from Porta Nuova), the Lavazza Museum is in the north in Aurora, where the metro does not go. The sequence that works: Lavazza in the morning with the Porta Palazzo market, lunch in the centre, Risorgimento in the early afternoon, then metro to Lingotto for MAUTO and the rooftop track towards sunset.

• One afternoon only: MAUTO + Lingotto, or Risorgimento + Egyptian Museum in the centre.
• Rain: Risorgimento and Lavazza are indoors, the Lingotto track is not.
• With children: Lavazza and MAUTO, skipping the Risorgimento.
• Lingotto shopping centre and outlet: see shopping in Turin.

Platforms, booking and how we choose

For guided tours we start with GetYourGuide, which has three real products here: the private Lavazza Museum tour (5.0★ but from only 3 reviews), the Centro Storico Fiat visit and the Risorgimento tour with a historic café: check language, duration and meeting point before paying. For single tickets and the Card we use Tiqets, where the Lavazza Museum and MAUTO appear as timed entries; Headout is the fallback when the others are sold out. Guided tours usually cancel free up to 24 hours before, timed tickets almost never: fix the tours first, buy the tickets once the itinerary is settled.

Prices are bands observed on partner catalogues and checked regularly; the checkout price prevails. We are not the official site of these museums and we do not sell tickets; the buttons lead to partners, who pay us a commission at no extra cost to you.