Il Museo Storico dei Carabinieri di Roma, was established in 1925 and the building that houses it, built towards the end of the nineteenth century, is a small but harmonious palace that still preserves the original volumes and external lines, with the only variation of decorative elements inserted on the perimeter 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 preserves relics (including the Royal Patents of establishment and the first War Flag of the Corps), uniforms, weapons, documents, and other valuable material related to the history of the Corps since its foundation, as well as works dedicated to the Carabinieri by artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The route, chronological and thematic, is accompanied and enhanced by multilingual audioguides and modern multimedia devices.
The Museum also houses a Shrine dedicated to the Fallen and an Honor Hall, where gypsum sculptures taken from the original casts of those in bronze that adorn, in Turin, the National Monument to the Carabinieri, created in 1933 by the well-known sculptor Edoardo Rubino, and erected in the garden of the Royal Palace. In addition to the exhibition, the Museum also conducts historical research through access to its archives, which researchers and scholars can consult.
