Italian

The Museo Memoriale della Libertà (Memorial Museum of Freedom) in Bologna presents artifacts from the city’s experiences during the Second World War. Exhibits include a collection of military and civilian vehicles and aircraft, a freight wagon used to transport Italian deportees to concentration camps, and the photographic and film collection of Bologna student Edo Ansaloni, who captured the Liberation of Bologna on April 21, 1945. 

The Museo della Resistenza di Bologna (Bologna Resistance Museum) presents the history of war and resistance in Bologna prior to and during the Second World War. Main exhibits include “Anti-Fascism Before the War,” “Bolognese Participation in the Spanish Civil War,” “City at War,” “Resistance in Bologna,” and “Resistance in Postwar History.”

The Museo della Repubblica di Montefiorino e della Resistenza Italiana (Museum of the Republic of Montefiorino and Italian Resistance) in Montefiorino presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation in 1943-45, with an emphasis on the partisan Republic of Montefiorino which existed in 1944 before being repressed by German forces.

The Fondazione Villa Emma (Villa Emma Foundation) is a cultural centre and historic organization established in Nonantola to commemorate the actions of the town and its residents in housing and sheltering 73 Jewish children and youth between Summer 1942 and Fall 1943. A total of 73 youth between the ages of six and 21 arrived in Nonantola over this period in two large refugee groups: the first from Germany and Austria on July 17, 1942, the second from Bosnia and Croatia on April 10, 1943.

The Museo della Resistenza Piacentina (Piacentina Resistance Musuem) presents the history of Italian resistance to German and Fascist occupation in the Province of Piacentina from 1943-45. Exhibits display period artifacts including weapons and uniforms employed by local partisans.

The museum is administered and operated by local volunteers, who also provide guided hiking tours of former partisan trails. The museum was inaugurated on April 25, 2009.