Marengo Museum

The Marengo Museum is a historical museum dedicated to the Battle of Marengo that analyses its causes, developments and consequences, in the belief that Bonaparte's victory was an important element in subsequent European history and one of the founding acts for the Italian process of national unification.

At the same time, the mythical character assumed by Napoleon's victory at Marengo originates infinite representations, pictorial, narrative, musical, spectacular, even to this day, always adapting to social, economic, political and cultural changes over more than two centuries of history.

The contents and multimedia reconstructions, together with historical artefacts from the Napoleonic era, recount the troubled events of the Battle, which represents a fundamental event in the creation of the myth of the future Emperor of the French who, saved from almost certain defeat by the fortuitous arrival of his troops on the battlefield, built around Marengo the fulcrum of an unstoppable advance into Italian territory.

Officially opened in June 2009, the museum is housed in Villa Delavo, built in 1846 by pharmacist Giovanni Antonio Delavo. Inside are exhibits and memorabilia from the period, alongside works by contemporary artists. Outside the Museum is the Villa Park, with a memorial dedicated to the fallen of the battle and General Desaix. The symbol of the Marengo Museum is the Pyramid where the museum reception, information area, cloakroom and bookshop are located.
The museum hosts temporary exhibitions and educational workshops.