The Museum of the Risorgimento in Milan is housed in the beautiful Palazzo Moriggia, designed in 1775 by Giuseppe Piermarini, the architect of the Teatro alla Scala. Already the seat, in Napoleonic times, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, later, of the Ministry of War, the building, which passed to the De Marchi family in 1900, was donated to the City of Milan by the wife of the famous naturalist Marco De Marchi and on that occasion it was used as a museum. Through an articulated set of materials consisting of prints, paintings, sculptures, drawings, weapons and memorabilia, the collections illustrate the period of Italian history between Napoleon Bonaparte’s first campaign in Italy (1796) and the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy (1870).
