Museo della Fine della Guerra

The Museo della Fine della Guerra (End of the War Museum) in Dongo is located in the town near where, on April 27, 1945, Benito Mussolini was halted while attempting to escape Italian territory and was held by local partisans before being executed the following day. The museum is located in Dongo’s Palazzo Manzi, the town hall, where Mussolini and accompanying Italian Social Republic officials were taken and held prior to Mussolini being taken into captivity.

The museum’s permanent virtual and interactive exhibitions describe these circumstances of Mussolini’s arrest and execution as well as the effects of the end of the war and liberation upon the people of Dongo and the region. The museum also includes detailed exhibitions on local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-1945; this was originally included in the Museo della Resistenza Comasca (Como Resistance Museum) which existed in the same location until its expansion into the current museum beginning in 1995.