Museo della Resistenza

The Museo della Resistenza (Resistance Museum) in Leca d’Albenga is a small permanent exhibit attached to the local National Association of Italian Partisans (A.N.P.I. / Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia) center which documents the activities and daily lives of Italian partisans who resisted German and fascist occupation in Albenga and the Savona region from 1943 to 1945. Originally a temporary travelling photograph exhibit on the daily lives of local partisans organized by A.N.P.I. in Albenga, the documents were installed as a permanent exhibition in 1990; in 2005, they were moved to their current location.

The exhibition contains more than 200 photographs and works of art, generally created by local partisans, which portray their daily lives. There are also a number of preserved propaganda posters, created by German or Italian Social Republic authorities, which document these regimes’ portrayals of the Italian partisans. Other objects on display include common partisan belongings – bags, binoculars, maps, etc. – and a collection of German and Italian weapons.