The SAME Museum, inaugurated in 2008, is a vast open-space exhibition with a floor area of approx. 700 m2. On Entering the Museum, where they are met by Francesco Messina’s sculpture of Francesco Cassani, visitors embark on a veritable journey through the history of agricultural mechanisation. In fact, the Museum is home to some real treasures – often one-off specimens – which testify to the history of the Company. This is much more than an exhibition of tractors: some of the most important breakthroughs in the mechanisation of agriculture are represented through prototypes and mass-produced machines, all in pristine condition: original items, texts and images. In the foreground – naturally – are the tractors, thirty-six models are exhibited, the most significant of which is a milestone of mechanisation: The Cassani 40 HP Tractor (1927), the first to be powered by a diesel engine.

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The archives stand alongside the significant SAME Museum, dedicated to the history of the tractor and of agricultural mechanisation. These Archives are dedicated to the collection, conservation and promotion of historical documentation recording the long life of SAME and of the brands owned by the Group. Over twenty three thousand documents can be found in these archives, comprising an abundant photographic collection; a specialised library, with a section on dissertations and publications on agricultural mechanisation in Italy; extraordinary technical publications (original drawings, patents, user and maintenance booklets, workshop manuals, catalogues of spare parts, scale models; and advertising literature (catalogues, leaflets, press publicity, calendars, house organs, videos, historic merchandising campaigns); the press review; and the SAME DEUTZ-FAHR Group’s balance sheets.

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