Luogo - Museum

Museo del Risorgimento 'Vittorio Emanuele Orlando'

Where Piazza S. Domenico, 1, Palermo

The museum is located on the ground floor of the Cloister of the Church of San Domenico. It was established in 1918 at the behest of the Sicilian Society of National History and officially opened in 1961 during the centenary of the Unification of Italy. The Museum aims to document an important moment in history, one that led to Italian unity. The collection is housed in three rooms, the first is the Great Hall. Here there are paintings, portraits and busts of people such as some Bourbon kings, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giulio Benso and Ruggero Settimo. The works are mostly made by artists from Sicily between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as Morello, Civiletti and De Lisi. In the display cases, pennants, scarves, helmets and weapons. There are also a cannon dating back to the revolution of 1820 and the flag of one of the ships of the Expedition of the Thousand, the Lombardo. In the second room, the Room Crispi, is exposed the study of the statesman, along with various objects that belonged to him and the marble bust by Marco Dovi. Also of note, the equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, by Vincenzo Ragusa, and a number of documents including the Decrees of 1848 and a letter signed by Ferdinand of Savoy.

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