It was inaugurated on May 30, 2003, in Turin, at the 18th-century Juvarrian palace of the “Military Quarters,” recently restored.
The museum’s creation is the result of collaboration between local authorities (municipality and province) and various associations focused on the country’s history, particularly the Resistance, as well as monitoring human rights worldwide. The museum is divided into two sections: the permanent section and the temporary section.
In the permanent section, visitors can relive, through various documents and films, the city’s history from the 1938 Racial Laws to the enactment of the new Republican Constitution, passing through the tragic events of World War II; furthermore, after renovation work, the air-raid shelter in the museum’s basement has been made accessible again. The temporary section hosts exhibitions and conferences on topics such as wars and the respect of human rights.
Finally, besides organizing educational activities for schools, the museum highlights and promotes the “places of memory” in the city and provincial territory. In the same building, but at Via del Carmine 13, are also housed the Piedmont Institute for the History of the Resistance and Contemporary Society (ISTORETO), the National Cinematographic Archive of the Resistance (ANCR), and the Primo Levi International Study Center.
Information about Diffuse Museum of the Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights, and Freedoms
Corso Valdocco, 4/a,
10100 Turin (Turin)
0114363470
museodiffuso@comune.torino.it
Source: MIBACT
