Collectors & Aficionados
Inside the World’s Greatest Classic Car Collections – Part 4: Silvia Nicolis and her Museum in beautiful Verona
Silvia Nicolis turned her father’s passion into a unique museum near Verona, filled with rare cars, bikes and remarkable technology.
Among the world’s top 100 collectors, there are also three women who run and bring their collections to life: the American Anne Brockinton Lee, and two Italians, Monica Macaluso and Silvia Nicolis.
Today we’re talking about Silvia, because her story is truly beautiful. From a Veronese family – Verona being the city of Juliet and Romeo and home to the Arena di Verona, the temple of opera – she lost her father when she was still very young. He was a passionate collector of everything related to technology, cars included, of course. Faced with the risk that her father’s legacy – made up of cars, motorbikes, but also automata, photographic equipment, cinematography devices, and much more - might be dispersed through a sale, Silvia decided to devote her life to her father’s passion and to his memory.
