The figurine museum was born out of the will and collecting passion of Giuseppe Panini, founder of Edizioni Panini and creator of the renewal of the figurine in a modern sense, who wanted to validate his product through a history of the small press by collecting, right from the beginning of his entrepreneurial activity , hundreds of thousands of small prints from all over the world, similar to the figurine for technique or function.
The collection expanded to such an extent that in 1986 it became a museum located within the company itself. To date, the collection consists of about 500,000 specimens.