Museo Forte Bramafam

At the end of the 19th century, Fort Bramafam in Bardonecchia was the most important fortification in the Cottian Alps; after the last conflict, looting and devastation had reduced it to a mass of ruins.

Since 1995, on the initiative of the Association for the Study of Military History and Architecture, a 25-year restoration project has been underway, the focus of which is the creation of a museum on the history of the Royal Army. Inside the barracks block, 35 rooms, with a series of dioramas and careful environmental reconstructions, 160 mannequins with original uniforms, 72 artillery pieces, and over 2,000 artefacts of military life, allow visitors to take an unprecedented journey back in time. In the realisation of the Bramafam Fortress Museum, the historical 'good' has always been placed at the centre of the narrative: uniforms, documents, weapons, personal objects... and this in order to preserve and hand down the memory. Walking through the rooms of the museum, the suggestions of the environments overwhelm, the objects, the music, the noises take you back in time, experiencing the sensations of those who, sometimes unwillingly, were actors in the events of the war: memories sometimes come out overbearingly from the showcases, small memories of the past of men who are now part of history.
In recent years, thanks to an active collaboration with the National Artillery Museum, the Bramafam has become a detached section of the Artillery Museum.