If you’ve ever walked past a lamppost plastered with a club flyer promising the best night of your life, you’ve seen a piece of nightlife history. For one Italian collector, those scraps of paper became a lifelong obsession — and eventually, a world record.
Marco Brusadelli, from Cisano Bergamasco, Italy, has officially entered the Guinness World Records for owning the largest collection of nightclub flyers in the world, with a total of 113,012 pieces carefully preserved.
It all started back in 1991, when Marco began peeling flyers off city walls during his travels, saving them in folders instead of letting them fade away. Over the next 24 years, he transformed his house into an unofficial museum of rave culture — a time capsule of electronic music from 1985 to 2015.
His collection spans flyers from legendary clubs, DJs, and parties across the globe — from house and techno to trance, drum’n’bass, and cosmic sounds. With more than 40,000 flyers from Italy, 11,000 from the UK, and thousands more from every corner of the world, Marco’s archive maps out the global evolution of nightlife itself.
“These flyers represent more than 25 years of electronic music history and its contemporary art,” Marco said. “I’ve traded with collectors worldwide, and I’m sure this is the largest and most diverse archive in existence.”
Each flyer in his music room is neatly organized by country, event, and even design dimensions, turning what started as a passion project into a serious cultural archive.
Now recognized by Guinness World Records, Marco says his next chapter is dedicated to helping others — but his collection remains open to anyone who shares his love for the world of club flyers.
“I worked more than half of my life for this, not for money,” he said. “My hope is to inspire new generations to learn about the beautiful history of the house and techno revolution.”
