Civic Historical Collections Milan
The rich collection of paintings, relics and prints in the Museo del Risorgimento illustrates the period of Italian history between Napoleon Bonaparte’s first campaign in Italy in 1796 and the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy in 1870.
The first nucleus of the collection was constituted on the occasion of the Italian General Exhibition of 1884, where a large number of relics and documents about the Italian Risorgimento were placed in the Risorgimento pavilion. At the end of the exhibition the material was transferred to the Salone dei Giardini Pubblici at Porta Venezia in Milan, where the National Risorgimento Museum was officially opened on 24 June 1886. Various transfers took the museum first to the rooms of the Rocchetta of the Castello Sforzesco (1896), then to the Casa Manzoni after the bombings of 1943, and finally in 1950 to its final seat in Palazzo Moriggia.
