The Museum and Mausoleum of Guglielmo Marconi is a museum and burial structure for the Italian scientist, inventor, and engineer,

Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi (; 25 April 187420 July 1937) was an Italians, Italian inventor and electrical engineering, electrical engineer, known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based Wireless telegrap ...

. The tomb is located adjacent to the 17th-century Villa Griffone/Villa Marconi, located on via Celestini #1 in Pontecchio Marconi, about 15 kilometers outside the city of Bologna in Emilia Romagna, Italy.

Museum and Foundation

The Marconi Museum (''Museo Marconi)'' celebrates the discoveries and advances of Guglielmo Marconi in the areas of electricity and

radio communication Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

, as well as a general history of the development of radiocommunication. It houses some of the scientific instruments and products used and developed by Marconi and others. The villa also houses th
Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi
and the Ugo Bordoni Foundation.

Mausoleum

A few years after the death of Marconi in 1937, in the midst of the Second World War, the Mussolini government interred Guglielmo, who had been an avowed fascist sympathizer, and his second wife Maria Cristina Bezzi Scali in an underground hypogeum-tomb, designed by Marcello Piacentini, and sporting a column with Marconi's bust by

Arturo Dazzi Arturo Dazzi (13 July 1881 – 16 October 1966) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Biography Dazzi was born in Carrara and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara from 1892 to 1899, studying under sculptor Lio Gangeri. In 1901 he w ...

. The tomb, as with many fascist architectural monuments, hearkens back to Etruscan civilization and ancient Roman models of tombs with a simple entrance to an underground chamber beneath a tumulus.Emilia Romagna
by Touring Club Italiano, page 277.

References

{{reflist University of Bologna Museums in Emilia-Romagna Science museums in Italy History museums in Italy Italian fascist architecture Monuments and memorials in Emilia-Romagna Guglielmo Marconi