Museum of the Risorgimento, Turin, Italy

The National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento is the first, the biggest and the most important among the 23 museums in Italy dedicated to the Risorgimento; and the only one which can be considered 'national' according to a 1901 law, and due to its rich and great collections. It is housed in the Palazzo Carignano in Turin.

The museum was established in 1878, shortly after Italian unification, even though it only had its first permanent exhibition in 1908. Originally located in the Mole Antonelliana, in 1938 it was moved to its current site.

Its exhibits include weapons, flags, uniforms, printed and written documents (including the original manuscript of the song Il Canto degli Italiani, dated November 10, 1847 by Goffredo Mameli, now Italian national anthem since 1946), and artworks. The new exhibition, opened on March 18, 2011, occupies about 3500 square metres across 30 rooms, and covers the real Risorgimento period, stretching from the late 18th century revolutions to the beginning of the First World War. It includes a specialized library, a prints cabinet and a documentary archive.

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Roberto Olivo (8 months ago)
An interesting museum in an impressive and monumental palace, illustrating with articrafts, documents and audiovisuals the tumultuous history of Italy and Europe from the French Revolution to WWI. The palace also hosts the first Italian Parliament, the Parlamento Subalpino.

Charles Ogier (9 months ago)
Beautiful building and an incredible wealth of artifacts. But it takes more to do a museum: i leave this place without understanding Italian unification. Rooms after rooms of objects without a coherent explanation, no red line, people just going through. Read the Wikipedia page BEFORE showing up or you will be staring things you do not understand. Please re-think the place, reduce the number of objects or just provide a 10 lines description of what happens and when so that people understand.

Gustavo R (11 months ago)
Great voyage through the complex historical facts, pictures, documents and most specially the many people that lead to the Italian unification in the 19th century

Asia Allemani (13 months ago)
Beautiful historical museum in the city centre of Turin. I recommend it for the people who are interested in historical facts. Also, there are many videos explaining the history of Italy.

I J (2 years ago)
It was OK, not breathing but good. Price of €10 is adequate. Missed out on room 30 as there was an event on and we never got to see it. Also, museum has no photo policy- but everyone takes pictures ( including people with actual DSLR cameras etc) and staff never said nothing - so I also snapped some

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