Civic Museum of the Risorgimento of Bologna

The Civic Museum of the Risorgimento of Bologna located inside the Casa Carducci building, the residence that housed the poet Giosuè Carducci from 1890 to 1907, who moved to Bologna as a professor of the University.

The Civic Museum of the Risorgimento in Bologna was established in 1893 to retrace the history of Bologna from the French Revolution to the end of the First World War. The overall history of Bologna is part of the broader panorama of the Risorgimento period, an epic no longer seen exclusively from a military and heroic point of view, but as an integral part of civil life, in its cultural, social, political and economic aspects.

Inside the museum you can admire the painting "The expulsion of the Austrians from Bologna on 8 August 1848" by Antonio Muzzi , which shows the final phase of the battle in which the Austrian troops were defeated and expelled and which constituted the fact of most relevant weapons of the Risorgimento. It should also be noted the presence of one of the most beautiful portraits of Giuseppe Garibaldi . Curiously, the Museum also exhibits a cap that belonged to him, identical to the one depicted in the painting.