Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano - 8

A place of history. A place where antiques are kept. To be in there brings to you, the knowledge of the past. You will get to see pictures describing the events that surrounded Italy's declaration as a sovereign nation. It is such a beautiful structure. There are pictures of art and it's lovely on the overall.

Good place to learn about the birth of the Italian republic in the European context. It all starts with the French revolution spreading though Europe. This museum is an absolute must for who wants to understand the Italian politics. The museum offer good video presentations in with subtitles in English.

A great place to spend a few hours. Nice illustrations and documents from around the French revolution and Napoleon time in Italy. The rest apart from a Garibaldi room is meh. Maybe the Manzini stuff is q bit cool. Also preserved is the parliament room of the cisalpine something something republic something. They have made a reenactment film too. Cavour bavour. Cavour was a bad victim of fat phobia

A history museum with no text, so really just for people who already know the history of Italy. There are good 10 min videos around different topics (French Revolution, Habsburg empire etc), & some beautiful rooms, but really they need a summary text explaining what is in each room & giving a timeline overview

This museum is a must to everyone who wants to have an understanding of what the city of Torino meant to the Italian unification. Very informative and well organized in one of the most majestic buildings of the city.

Very interesting and didactic museum. If you want to know how Italy was formed as a modern nation this is the place. 1-4 hours visit depending on your interest in History…

(April 2022- 2 1/2 years into the COVID Pandemic) What a shame, the museum has a rich collection of artifacts but unfortunately if you come looking to learn something about Italian history, or to get some context as to how reunification came about, you will leave disappointed. As far as I can see the didactic experience of the museum was previously tied together by a series of explanatory cards. These have been removed due to COVID. Fine, but replace them with something else! I have been to plenty of museums in the last two years with more or less cheap and effective solutions to this problem. In this case something as simple as uploading a pdf of the 30 explanatory cards to the website, and linking this to a qr code would be enough. Otherwise what was the point of reopening the museum?? I also found a long-neglected app (made in 2013 and not currently advertised in the museum) on the Google Play store which appears to have even more detailed explanations and would have been a perfect covid-friendly resource. But there is a simple connection error with the museum WiFi which prevents you from getting beyond the first video. Again a very easy fix which it appears no one has bothered to take care of in over 2 years. Only simple, non-explanations were available from the staff - 'the cards are gone', 'the app is broken'. I find this all the more frustrating because this is clearly a five-star attraction which Turin should be proud of - just look at all the glowing reviews from Italian visitors who better understand the context. Unfortunately it seems like lazy management of this great resource is currently making it unaccessible and incomprehensible for visitors from other countries. On my way to the exit I found a small guidebook available for 5 euros which appeared to have the Italian French and English texts which were previously available on the room by room cards. It wasn't suggested to me by the staff either at the time of buying the ticket or when I asked for more information, and by this point I didn't feel like paying extra to go back and restart the tour with what should have been the basic amount of information available as part of the 10 euro ticket price. I hope to return in normal times to understand this treasure of Italian history better. But honestly, in April 2022, COVID should no longer be an acceptable excuse for providing a substandard visitor experience at full price.

Well presented history of the Italian unification with many restored artifacts and paintings. Currently there is a temporary display about the building of the the Fréjus tunnel. If you are at all interested in how Italy became the country it is today then this would be a highly recommended place to visit.