Museum

The Museo della Resistenza di Ca’Malanca (Ca’Malanca Resistance Museum) presents the local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45. Displays include written documents, posters, and photographs which document occupation, resistance, and liberation, including records of the local 36 Brigata Garibaldi and the nearby Battle of Purocielo (October 10, 1944) between German forces and local partisans.  

The Museo Storico Casa dell’Eccidio di Tavolicci (Tavolicci Casa dell’Eccidio Historical Museum) commemorates the location of a mass execution in which 64 civilians were killed by members of the IV German-Italian Police Battalion on July 22, 1944. That night, the town’s inhabitants were rounded up and locked in the Casa dell’Eccidio, then machine-gunned as the building was set on fire. While some were able to escape by jumping out of windows, 64 were killed including 19 children under the age of 10.

The Museo del Risorgimiento e della Resistenza di Ferrara (Ferrara Museum of the Risorgimiento and Resistance) presents a history of war and resistance in Ferrara, emphasising three key topics and periods: the Risorgimiento, the wars of Italian unification; the First World War; and the Second World War, antifascism, and local partisan and resistance movements.

The Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) presents the history of “the two thousand year-old Jewish presence in Italy.” Particular detail is given to the Italian Jewish experience in the years leading up to the Second World War, Italian persecution of Jews, and records of Italian Jews in the Shoah, including the changed circumstances resulting from the German occupation of Northern Italy in 1943.    

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.”