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Franceschini and Sala: "It is essential to preserve the memory of the Resistance". A digital project to tell the story of the Museum to come

Milan, 24 April 2021 – From tomorrow, 25 April 2021, the anniversary of the Liberation of Italy, the National Museum of the Resistance in Milan will be online: a digital project that includes a website and the activation of the social profiles Instagram @museonazionalereesistenza and Facebook @reesistenzamuseo. These will accompany visitors to discover the Museum which will come with the aim of bringing Italian citizens and the international public closer to the facts and values ​​of the liberation struggle, promoting knowledge of the project and following the construction site, raising awareness and involving young people, thanks also to specific sections such as The Museum I would like and the Timeline, that is, through continuous in-depth analysis of memory, history and project.

The site museonazionalereesistenza.it  will collect and tell the memories and history of the Italian Resistance in a journey of words, photos, videos, audio and period documents.

For the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini: "With the new site another step is taken towards the National Museum of the Resistance, the project that will lead to the birth of a national place to preserve the memory and pass on to future generations what our women have done mothers and our fathers to give us that freedom that today we consider to be taken for granted and obvious,
while it isn't at all. The new site will allow you to explore and follow the different phases of implementation and development of the project and tell what the Resistance was."

For the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala: "Milan has the honor of having been chosen to host the National Museum of the Resistance, a place of memory, shared, preserved and widespread, where the founding values ​​of our country are kept alive. Looking forward to inaugurate the headquarters which will be built at the Bastioni di Porta Nuova and will complete an area of ​​the city already dedicated to culture, through the website and social profiles we will be able to begin to know what the Resistance Museum will tell us all. Milan is proud of its history and its identity as a city of the Resistance and this Museum and its digital channels will give further testimony to this in Italy and around the world".

The National Museum of the Resistance in Milan, which is scheduled to open in 2025/2026, is a project of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Milan with the scientific support of the Ferruccio Parri National Institute and the network of Italian institutes for the history of Resistance and the contemporary age.

The Museum will be located in the building designed by the Herzog & de Meuron studio, completing the Integrated Intervention Plan for the Porta Volta Bastions, already partly built along Via Pasubio with the twin headquarters of the Feltrinelli Foundation: the space, overall approximately 3.800 square meters, will be built within the municipal area between via Montello and via Volta.
 
The digital project was created thanks to the support of the Ferruccio Parri National Institute - Network of institutes for the history of the Resistance and the contemporary age, which made use of the collaboration and materials made available by the associations that support the Museum: AICVAS - Italian Association of Volunteer Anti-Fascist Fighters of Spain; ANED - National Association of former deportees to Nazi camps; ANEI - National association of former inmates in national concentration camps; ANPI - National Association of Partisans of Italy; ANPPIA - National Association of persecuted Italian anti-fascist politicians; ANRP - National Association of Prison Veterans; FIAP - National Federation of partisan associations and FIVL - Italian Federation of Freedom Volunteers.