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Museum of the Risorgimento in Milan - Moriggia Palace

Risorgimento Museum - Moriggia Palace is a museum in Milan dedicated to the Risorgimento, the period of Italian history that led to the unification of the country in 1861.

The museum is housed in the eighteenth-century Palazzo Moriggia and its collection includes paintings, sculptures, weapons and other artefacts of the period.

Museum, Library and Archive.

The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00. It is closed on Mondays.

The Risorgimento Museum was born in 1884 from the desire of the Milanese to send a collection of testimonies relating to the Risorgimento epic to the Italian General Exhibition in Turin.

Once the exhibition closed, the materials found an initial arrangement in the Hall of the Public Gardens (former Convent of the Carcanine) and were then transferred in 1896 to the Sforzesco Castle. Today the Museum is housed in the eighteenth-century Palazzo Moriggia, designed in 1755 by Giuseppe Piermarini close to the vast Brera complex.

Already the seat, in the Napoleonic era, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, later, of the Ministry of War, the palace, which passed to the De Marchi family in 1900, was donated to the Municipality of Milan by the wife of the famous naturalist Marco De Marchi and in that occasion intended for museum purposes.

From its inception, the Museum presented itself as an institution capable of combining the tasks of protecting memory and building national identity which were its own with the role of an institute engaged in the field of research thanks to the organization of a library and a archives, which are today among the most important in Italy for the study of recent national history.

Through a complex set of materials composed 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).

The last installation dates back to 2011 on the occasion of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. Keeping the chronological sequence intact, the exhibition itinerary, divided into 14 rooms, highlights some key episodes of nineteenth-century Milanese history and the construction of national identity in the Risorgimento: the wide offering stimulates new reflections in the public, allowing them to explore and reflect on history past and its connections with the contemporary one.

Map: Museum of the Risorgimento in Milan - Moriggia Palace