Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento (National Museum) in Turin: where, opening hours, purchasing tickets

The Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento (National Museum) in Turin: the cost, prices and purchase of tickets, opening hours, the history of the collection on display, contacts and useful information for arriving at and visiting the museum.

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The National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento - housed in Palazzo Carignano - is the most ancient and older important museum dedicated to the Italian Risorgimento. Founded in 1878 it is dedicated to the Risorgimento era which culminated in in the process of unification of Italy.

Collection exhibited at the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin

The collection displays finds dating back to 1706 and 1946: two significant dates for the city. why correspond to the siege of Turin and the birth of the Republic.

The collection is preserved inside the main floor of Palazzo Carignano and displays 2,579 finds of the 53,011 that make up the entire catalog of the museum collection.

Through an itinerary of 30 rooms with weapons, banners, uniforms, prints, manuscripts and paintings, the historical process that led to the Unification of Italy is narrated starting from the French Revolution (1789), the Napoleonic Era (1796-1815), the Restoration (1814), the Carbonari uprisings of 1820-1821, the revolts of 1830-1831, the revolutions of 1848, the Wars of Italian independence of 1848, 1859 and 1866, the Expedition of the Thousand (1860), the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy (1861), the capture of Rome (1870).

A room is dedicated to Cavour, ideologue of unification, in which he was was rebuilt original ministerial study.

The last rooms are dedicated to the political, social, religious, cultural aspects of the first fifty years of the Kingdom of Italy until arriving in the Early Twentieth Century which brought to the Great War which ended with the annexation of Trentino, Alto Adige and Venezia Giulia bringing to the creation of the current geography of Italy.

The pearl of the collection is the Chamber of Deputies of the Subalpine Parliament, a national monument already since 1898 and the only original example in the world of a parliamentary chamber established after the revolutions of 1848. The room has the original furnishings from 1860 when it stopped being used. You can recognize the seats occupied at the time by the most important parliamentarians. prominent like Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cavour, Massimo d'Azeglio, Cesare Balbo, Vincenzo Gioberti which bear a tricolor cockade.

Along the route there is also the room of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament which however is it was never used because it was the capital of Italy was already was moved first to Florence and then to Rome.

The collection also has a library which houses 167,750 volumes on the fourth floor of the building.

There are exhibition itineraries for blind, visually impaired and hearing impaired disabled people.

History of the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin

The museum opened the doors to the public in 1878 to celebrate the death of the first king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II who was born in Palazzo Carignano. But the first exhibitions were temporary and only in 1908 was it decided to permanently place it inside the Mole Antonelliana.

There was another transfer in 1930 this time towards Palazzo del Giornale before finally arriving in 1938 at Palazzo Carignano . The Palace was the seat of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 1848 to 1860 and of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865.

For the centenary of the first war of independence in 1948 and for the centenary of the Unification of Italy in 1961 the museum experienced transformations in the collection on display.

Closed after the Turin Olympics in 2006, the museum was restored, rearranged and reopened on 18 March 2011 for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy in the presence of the President of Repubblica Giorgio Napolitano.

Questions about the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin

– When you can visit the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin? From Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 to 19.00 (last entry at 18.00); Monday closed.
– How long does the visit to the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin last? From 1 to 3 hours.
– How much does it cost to visit the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin? Whole € 10, reduced € 8 (over 65 years); free for children under 6 years of age, Turin Museum Subscription + Piemonte Card.
– When is the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin is free? Under 6 years old, Turin Museum Pass + Piemonte Card.

Informazioni utili per la visita

How to get to Turin station ⟷ National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento in Turin

The National Museum of the Italian Risorgimento can be reached from Turin's Porta Nuova station with a walk of approximately 1.1 km.

Public transport: bus lines S04, S05, 11, 58.