High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Gianni Caproni Museum of Aeronautics (Italian: Museo dell`Aeronautica Gianni Caproni) is Italy`s oldest aviation museum, as well as the country`s oldest corporate museum. It was established in 1927 as the Caproni Museum (Museo Caproni) by Italian aviation pioneer and aeronautical engineer, Giovanni Battista "Gianni" Caproni and his wife, Timina Guasti Caproni.