Guzzi motorcycles. A family history

An exhibition dedicated to Moto Guzzi, entitled “A family history”. The proposal comes from the Councilor for Education of the Municipality of Mandello Doriana Pachera, who involved the students of the town's schools.

The birth of the initiative is told by Pachera herself. “At the beginning of last school year, 2020/21, I proposed to the head teacher La Catena, on the occasion of the Moto Guzzi centenary, the project called 'Moto Guzzi'. What it consisted of: first of all the visit to the Museum, but the plan Coronavirus emergency did not allow pupils to leave the school so 'if the pupils cannot go to the museum, the museum will go to the pupils'. spettacolo), allowing them to tiptoe into the Moto Guzzi world. Subsequently, thanks to the collaboration of the teachers, I assigned them a task “.

The topic of the task

Writing, also in the form of brief thoughts, memories on the Moto Guzzi relating to both the distant past and the more recent one (layoffs, possible closure, layoffs …). hear the roar of the engine when starting it: not only, therefore, descriptions but also sensations and emotions. The following can be consulted: parents, grandparents, uncles and even acquaintances.

“La-qui-la”, the Moto Guzzi bikes on display become a traveling museum

Children and young people have collected this from their families or with acquaintances, documents, photographs, magazines, information reconstructing the 100 years of Moto Guzzi being on the side of those who worked. “The interesting and beautiful thing – continues Pachera – is that the pupils went in search of memories together with their families and always in the family, for example, they discovered that their maternal great-grandfather and paternal grandfather worked at Moto Guzzi, that their grandmother employed at Moto Guzzi she met her grandfather right inside the company that the Cockerel her grandfather had was the one purchased by her great-grandfather … older people 'were born in 2007) to experience first-hand what Moto Guzzi meant for our territory “.

The invitation was addressed to all the students of Icsa Volta, therefore primary and secondary schools of Abbadia Lariana and Mandello del Lario, to the pupils of the Istito Santa Giovanna Antida equal school and to the children of kindergartens. The material received was conspicuous and thus allowed the setting up of the exhibition “Moto Guzzi. A family history”, which will take place in the counseling room on Friday, Saturday, Sunday at the following times: 10-12, 14-18. To enter the foyer, advise those over 12 to spettacolo the green pass.