The foundations of the present Museum of the Risorgimento were established following the end of the First World War, when veterans from the city and province of Lucca, as members of the province’s Combatants’ Federation, undertook to collect historical material that documented Lucca’s role in both the events leading to Italian unification and its conclusion in 1915 – 1918. In 1925, thanks to major public and private donations and the work of...

Museum immersive video room

Without emotion, there is no communication. The first stop on the visit to the Museum of the Risorgimento, the immersion room, uses the latest audio-visual technology to provide an intense experience in terms of the communication of emotions. At its centre, the story of our national unification process and of its protagonists, told through the fictional, but historically significant, lives of three people: Luigi, a romantic and volunteer in the Second War of Independence and Expedition of the Thousand; Maria, his girlfriend, to whom Luigi...