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The Great War (1914-1918) is the central theme of the Museum of Rovereto, which, for the whole of the 20th Century has represented one of the most frequently visited destinations for those who wish to embark on a pilgrimage of remembrance.
Weapons, uniforms, soldiers’ kits, photographs, propaganda material, paintings, documents and memorabilia are all to be seen in the various rooms.
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| Weaponry and soldiers
in the nineteenth century
A great collection of items illustrating the transformation of War and weapons from Napoleon to the First World War: uniforms of the nineteenth century, flint guns, the first breech-loading weapons, the machine-gun of the American War of Secession, the Austro-Hungarian artillery of the first fortresses built in Trentino; the torpedo produced at the end of the nineteenth century by the Whithehead Company in Fiume. |
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| “Risorgimento” (Unification of Italy)
The nineteenth century was also the period of the Italian “Risorgimento” whose history is told in the second room thanks to Anna H. and Romain Rainero’s donation of ceramics, paintings and objects celebrating military episodes and characters such as Mazzini and Cavour, Vittorio Emanuele II, Umberto I and Queen Margherita, Napoleon III and Francis Joseph I. |
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A Great War. 1914-1918
The room introduces visitors to the Great War showing its development and the events concerning Trentino and its inhabitants. This room exhibits a rare Nieuport 10 airplane completely restored.
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Vintage film images - reworked by directors Gianikian Yervant and Angela Ricci Lucchi - shows the aviator’s look that for the first time experienced the vision of the earth from the sky.
4 | Austrian room
Uniforms, weapons and documents of the Austrian government.
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| Room of the castles
Archaeological remains found around the Castle of Rovereto and other fortresses of the Vallagarina: weapons, pottery fragments, chain-mail, lances, spurs and bits, shields and axes.
6 | Hospital room
A small camp hospital from the 1915-1918 conflict. |
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| The room of the Serenissima
87th Air Squadran "La Serenissima". Flight of Gabriele d’Annunzio over Vienna (9th august 1918). |
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| The soldiers room
Italian soldiers from the First World War: the Infantryman, the Alpino, the volunteer driver, the Carabiniere, the Ardito (commando), the Bersagliere cyclist, the finance officer. There are many everyday objects from life in the trenches; medals and memorabilia.
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| The ’91 rifle and machine-gun
The Italian ’91 rifle, machine guns and automatic weapons of the first half of the 20th Century. |
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Second World War
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| 1940-1945
Italy and the Second World War
Showing a synthesis of Italy’s military actions during the Second World War.
Uniforms, flags, posters and leaflets, weapons and memorabilia of the campaigns in the France, Greece, Russia and North Africa; war at sea and in the air, the birth of the Republic, the drama of prisoners of war and the partisan struggle.
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Firearms
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11* | Pistols and revolvers
A vast collection of 18th and 19th Century pistols.
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| 1500 - 1900
Development of firearms, from the beginning of the modern era to mid-20th Century; anti-personnel mines, mortars; 19th Century models of artillery and optical instruments for artillery use.
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Ancient Weaponry
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| The Caproni Room
The collection of ancient arms donated by Riccardo Caproni.
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Room of the Martyrs
Memorabilia and documents regarding the cult to the memory of the three Italian Army volunteers, Cesare Battisti, Fabio Filzi and Damiano Chiesa.
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The Trentini in Galicia
Images of Trentino soldiers on the Eastern Front. |
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| 1918
Events following the Italian retreat from Caporetto; uniforms and light weaponry of the armies; the lives of Italian prisoners of war seen through the drawings of Pietro Morando; the consequences of new armaments and difficulties of life in the trenches; the “parallel war” in the propaganda of the Italian and Austrian states. |
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The Bell Room
The Campana dei Caduti (the Bell of the Fallen) rang over the Castle between 1925 and 1960. This room holds the original plaster mould of the first bell and other memorabilia.
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