Museo del Risorgimento

Museum Turin, Italy

The National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento is the largest exhibition space of Italian national history, the oldest and most important museum dedicated to the Italian Risorgimento due to the richness and representativeness of its collections and the only one that officially has the title of " national", recognition obtained thanks to the royal decree nº 360 of 8 December 1901.

Founded in 1878, it is located in Turin in the historic Palazzo Carignano. It is dedicated to the Risorgimento era, during which the political unification of Italy took place. The exhibits on display in the museum, which can be attributed to a wider historical period, can be dated between 1706 (the year of the siege of Turin) and 1946 (the birth of the Italian Republic) with particular attention, as already mentioned, to the relics of the Risorgimento, which instead are linked to a period of time between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. The collections are kept on the main floor of the building. In 2016, the museum was visited by around 150,000 people, while 23,119 visitors to the palace's noble apartments were.