The Historical Museum of the Carabinieri in Rome was established in 1925, and the building that houses it, constructed towards the end of the nineteenth century, is a small but harmonious palace that still preserves the original volumes and external lines, with only the addition of decorative elements on the perimeter, created by the Military Engineering Corps based on the design by Architect Scipione Tadolini.
It was inaugurated in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III on June 6, 1937. In the 23 exhibition rooms, the Historical Museum holds relics (including the founding Royal Patents and the first War Flag of the Corps), uniforms, weapons, documents, and other significant materials related to the history of the Corps since its foundation, as well as artworks dedicated to the Carabinieri by nineteenth and twentieth-century artists. The chronological and thematic itinerary is supported and enhanced by multilingual audio guides and modern multimedia devices.
The Museum also features a Shrine dedicated to the Fallen and an Honor Hall, where plaster sculptures taken from the original casts of the bronze sculptures that adorn, in Turin, the National Monument to the Carabinieri—created in 1933 by the renowned sculptor Edoardo Rubino and erected in the garden of the Royal Palace—are placed. In addition to the exhibition, the Museum also conducts historical research through access to its archives, which researchers and scholars can consult.
