Palazzo Moriggia | Museo del Risorgimento

Founded in 1885, since 1951 the museum has been housed in the 18th-century Palazzo Moriggia, designed in 1775 by Giuseppe Piermarini next to the vast Brera complex. Formerly the seat, in Napoleonic times, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and, later, of the Ministry of War, the palace, which passed into the hands of the De Marchi family in 1900, was donated to the City of Milan by the wife of the famous naturalist Marco De Marchi and was then used as a museum.
Through an articulate set of materials consisting of prints, paintings, sculptures, drawings, weapons and memorabilia, the collections illustrate the period of Italian history between Napoleon Bonaparte's first campaign in Italy (1796) and the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy (1870).
The last exhibition dates back to 2011 on the occasion of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. Keeping the chronological sequence intact, the exhibition itinerary, divided into 14 rooms, highlights the salient nuclei of the collections such as, for example, the relics of Napoleon's coronation in Italy (the green and silver mantle and the precious royal insignia), the standard of the Lombardy Legion of Hunters on horseback, the first Italian Tricolour.