Ferrari Museum Maranello: tickets, hours and getting there from Modena

The Ferrari Museum at Maranello is the most searched destination in the Motor Valley, and the one with the most wrong information attached to it. Three misconceptions do most of the damage: that you can tour the factory, that the Fiorano tour is a lap of the track, and that high season runs from May to September.

None of them is true. What follows is the checked version — prices by season, hours by month, how to get there from Modena without a car, how long it really takes, and a discount that is on Ferrari's own ticket page and almost never quoted.

Verified against official sources in August 2026. Museums change exhibitions and tariffs, so reconfirm before you travel.

Where it is, and how to reach it

Via Alfredo Dino Ferrari 43, 41053 Maranello. The museum sits inside the Ferrari site, opposite the factory, and parking is free.

From Modena it is about 18 kilometres south, under half an hour by car.

By bus, with the warning that matters

The public link is SETA line 800, Modena-Maranello-Pavullo. It leaves Modena Autostazione and the stop you want is Maranello Ferrari Nord — not Maranello Terminal at the end of the line, which is somewhere else entirely.

Journey time	27-31 minutes
Fare, bought on the ground or contactless on board	€3.30
Fare from the driver	€4.00
Ticket validity	1 hour 45 minutes
Weekday frequency	roughly hourly
Sunday frequency	six buses all day

The classic mistake: the €2.00 urban ticket does not cover it. Maranello is an extra-urban service and the route crosses three fare zones. Groups of up to ten can use the €23.10 group fare, which pays from eight people up.

The real constraint is not the price, it is the Sunday timetable. Six departures means a half-hour miscalculation costs you two hours. Current times, including the summer timetable that switches in mid-September, are set out in Motor Valley from Modena.

The visitor shuttle

There is also a dedicated visitor shuttle linking the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena and the station with Maranello. It costs €22 for adults and €20 for children — far more than the bus — and runs a couple of times a day. Booking online asks for the order number of your museum ticket, which means you have to buy the museum ticket first. That is the step people get stuck on.

Prices

Ticket	September - May	June - August
Adult	€27.00	€32.00
Reduced	€22.00	€24.00
Under 19 with a paying family member	€9.00	€12.00
Musei Ferrari Pass, both museums	€38.00	€42.00
Musei Ferrari Pass, under 19 with family	€12.00	€18.00
Fiorano panoramic tour, adult	€25.00	€25.00
Formula 1 simulator	about €30.00	about €30.00
Disabled visitors and children under 5	free	free

High season is June, July and August only. This is the detail most pages get wrong, and it has a real consequence: May and September cost the same as November. If the museums are your reason for coming, September is the best window of the year — low-season pricing with long opening hours still in force.

The train discount

Arrive on a Trenitalia Tper regional train and one museum costs €20 instead of €27 or €32, and both cost €32 instead of €38 or €42. You need a current-year Emilia-Romagna regional ticket, shown at the desk.

Anyone coming over from Bologna for the day already holds it. In high season that is €12 a head — more than the bus fare to Maranello.

Three things from the official ticket page that save trouble:

• Booking is not compulsory. There is no daily visitor cap; buying online saves the queue, not the place.
• There is no re-entry. One ticket, one entry.
• The Pass runs on 48 hours, so the two museums can be split across two days.

Online purchases carry a Vivaticket fee of €0.40 to €0.80 plus VAT depending on ticket value.

Hours

Period	Open	Last entry
April, May, September, October	9:30 - 19:00	18:15
June, July, August	9:00 - 19:00	18:15
November to March	9:30 - 18:00	17:15

Open daily, closed 25 December and 1 January.

From November to March the desk stops selling at 17:15, which is earlier than almost anyone arriving in the afternoon expects.

What you see

The route covers four things.

The Formula 1 cars. This is the heart of it: the most successful single-seaters, lined up, with the trophies. It is the part Modena does not have and the main reason to make the trip.

Sport Prototipi and Gran Turismo. The legendary racing models outside Formula 1, alongside the road cars.

A reconstructed Formula 1 pit box. A faithful rebuild, and the exhibit that works best with children.

The simulators. Professional driving simulators, paid separately from admission. Here it is a Formula 1 simulator; the Modena museum has a GT one.

The current exhibition: Supercars

The temporary show running now is Supercars, on the Ferraris that led the company's technological jumps. On display are the 288 GTO (1984), the F40 (1987), the F50 (1995) and the Enzo (2002).

It is the supercar family tree in one room, and for anyone who had those cars on a bedroom wall it is the best part of the visit. Exhibition end dates are published only on the official site and do change: if you are travelling for a specific show, check the day before.

The Fiorano tour, and what it is not

This is the most expensive misunderstanding in the area.

People buy the tour believing it is a lap of the circuit. It is not:

• 45 minutes on an electric bus, in Italian and English;
• it crosses the company site and runs around the Fiorano track;
• you stay seated throughout — no getting out, no workshops, no riding in a Ferrari;
• €25 for adults, €20 reduced, €7 for under-19s with their parents, on top of museum admission.

One trap on departures: Ferrari's information page lists two, at 12:30 and 13:30, but the operator's booking system shows considerably more. Check the live booking calendar, not the information page.

If the track itself is what interests you, what can be seen from outside — and from exactly which points — is covered in our Italian guide to the Fiorano circuit, including the Gilles Villeneuve monument at the gate, which is free and open at all hours.

The factory cannot be visited

Worth stating plainly, because it is the most frequent search and the most common disappointment.

Ferrari's own website states that plant visits are reserved for clients and Formula 1 team sponsors. There is no public factory tour: what is sold under that name is the panoramic tour described above.

There is a useful flip side. The Motor Valley factories you genuinely can walk through are elsewhere: Lamborghini at Sant'Agata Bolognese runs guided tours of its assembly lines, Pagani opens its Atelier at San Cesario sul Panaro, Maserati runs a tour of its Modena plant, and Ducati opens Borgo Panigale in Bologna. If watching a car being built is the point, book one of those.

How long it takes

Ninety minutes for the museum, tour excluded.

Add the panoramic tour — 45 minutes, fixed departures around midday — and budget three hours or more including the wait. The usual planning error is trying to compress museum, tour and the bus home into a single morning.

With children, and with someone who does not care about cars

For children this is the stronger of the two museums: the rebuilt Formula 1 pit box, the simulators and a row of single-seaters hold attention better than most things you can take a ten-year-old to. Under-19s with a paying family member pay €9 in low season, €12 in high, and under-5s are free.

Two practical warnings. The Formula 1 simulator has a minimum height, so smaller children are excluded — better said in the car park than at the console. And the panoramic tour is 45 minutes sitting still on a bus, which is a long time at six years old.

The opposite case — travelling with someone who is indifferent to cars — is harder to solve here than in Modena. Outside the museum the town offers little, and there is no old centre to send the other half of the party wandering around. The trick that works is splitting up on the bus: the 800 makes it easy for one of you to spend three or four hours here while the other stays in Modena, where there is a city.

What not to expect

• Not the factory. See above.
• Not a lap of the track. The tour is panoramic and seated.
• Not driving a Ferrari through the museum. The supercar hire agencies in Maranello are independent of Ferrari — one says so on its own site. You drive on public roads with an instructor beside you and normal speed limits.
• Not re-entry after lunch on the same ticket.
• Not an evening. Maranello is a working industrial town: after the museum, the Ferrari Store and the hire agencies, that is the offer. Evenings happen in Modena.
• Not a Sunday afternoon bus you have not checked. Six departures, all day.

Lunch, which is better here than it looks

Something almost nobody writes: two hundred metres from the museum there is a Michelin star with a €65 tasting menu, open for lunch every day of the week.

It is the Cavallino, the restaurant opposite the factory gate under the gastronomic direction of Massimo Bottura, awarded its first star on 19 November 2025. It is the only starred restaurant in the province open for lunch daily, and the building still contains the private room where Enzo Ferrari watched Grands Prix — it began life in 1942 as the canteen he built for his workers.

Most visitors eat a sandwich in a bar opposite the museum because they do not know the alternative is there.

The day we suggest

1. An early bus from Modena, timetable checked the night before.
2. The museum at opening, while it is still empty: ninety minutes.
3. The panoramic tour at midday, if you want it, booked from the live calendar rather than the information page.
4. Lunch at the Cavallino, reserved.
5. Back to Modena in the afternoon, on a departure you verified before leaving.
6. The Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena the next day on the same Pass, which runs 48 hours: it is a walk from the centre and covers the half of the story missing here.

Point six is what makes the Pass sensible. The two museums are not versions of each other: the Enzo Ferrari Museum is the house, the father's workshop and the man; this one is Formula 1 and the factory.

Tickets and tours for the area are collected on our experiences page, with a secure checkout and instant confirmation.

Where to stay

The base is Modena, not Maranello, and that is not local pride: after dark, Maranello has nothing.

Our four apartments are all in Modena and are booked directly with us, with no platform commission.

If you are travelling by bus, the two inside the old walls — Piazza Mazzini and via De' Correggi — are the better position, because the coach station the 800 leaves from is in the centre: you are minutes from the stop on foot. For those, if you do arrive by car, we handle the €10-a-day traffic-zone permit.

If you are driving, the easiest is Modena Prestige on viale Vittorio Veneto: outside the limited traffic zone, no permit to arrange, public parking in front of the door. All four are on our apartments page.

We do not run transfers and we will not drive you anywhere. What we do is tell you which bus, at what time, and where to get off — and, if you send us your dates, phone the restaurant ourselves.

Read before you go

Getting to Modena covers airports, trains and coaches, and matters here for one reason: arriving on a regional train is worth €7 off the museum ticket. The wider guide to the Ferrari and Lamborghini museums from Modena adds Sant'Agata, Pagani and Ducati. If you are driving, the Modena ZTL should be read first — the fines arrive months later.

Frequently asked questions

Can you visit the Ferrari factory at Maranello? No. Ferrari's own website states that plant visits are reserved for clients and Formula 1 team sponsors. What is sold as a factory tour is the panoramic shuttle tour: 45 minutes on an electric bus through the company site and around the Fiorano track, without getting off and without entering any workshop.

How much is a ticket to the Ferrari Museum in Maranello? €27 for adults from September to May and €32 from June to August. Reduced is €22 or €24, under-19s with a paying family member €9 or €12, and entry is free for disabled visitors and children under 5. Arrive on a Trenitalia Tper regional train, show the used ticket, and it is €20 in any season.

How do you get to Maranello from Modena? SETA bus 800 from Modena Autostazione to the Maranello Ferrari Nord stop, which is a short walk from the museum: 27 to 31 minutes, €3.30 bought on the ground or with a contactless card on board, €4.00 from the driver. The €2 urban ticket is not valid, because the route crosses three fare zones. By car it is about 18 km and museum parking is free.

What is the Fiorano panoramic tour, and what does it cost? €25 for adults, €20 reduced and €7 for under-19s with their parents, on top of museum admission. It runs about 45 minutes in Italian and English on an electric bus, you stay seated throughout, and it is not a lap of the circuit. Ferrari's information page lists two departures but the operator's booking system shows more, so check the live calendar.

What are the opening hours of the Ferrari Museum? Open daily on a seasonal timetable: 9:30-19:00 in April, May, September and October; 9:00-19:00 from June to August; 9:30-18:00 from November to March. Last entry is 45 minutes before closing, so 18:15 April to October and 17:15 November to March. Closed 25 December and 1 January.

How much time do you need at the Ferrari Museum? About ninety minutes for the museum itself. Add the panoramic tour, which lasts 45 minutes and leaves at fixed times around midday, and you should budget three hours or more including the wait. Trying to fit museum, tour and the bus back into one morning is the most common planning error.

Is the Musei Ferrari Pass better than two single tickets? The Pass is €38 from September to May and €42 from June to August and covers both museums within a 48-hour window, saving €16 or €22 against two singles. But if you arrive by regional train, both museums together cost €32, which beats the Pass in any season.

Which Motor Valley factory can you actually walk through? Not Ferrari's. Lamborghini at Sant'Agata Bolognese runs guided tours of its production lines, Pagani opens its Atelier at San Cesario sul Panaro, Maserati runs a tour of its Modena plant and Ducati opens Borgo Panigale in Bologna. If seeing a car being built is the point, Maranello is the wrong address.