Culture. Franceschini and Sala: “The Resistance Museum in Piazzale Baiamonti”
The project announced today at Palazzo Marino. It will be realized thanks to funds from the Ministry for Cultural Activities and Tourism
Milan, 9 December 2019 – Milan, twice a Gold Medal City, will have a museum dedicated to the Resistance in Piazzale Baiamonti.
The announcement was made today at Palazzo Marino by the Mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, and by the Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, during a press conference also attended by the Councilor for Culture Filippo Del Corno.
The museum will be located within the municipal area between via Montello and via Volta, recently reclaimed in view of the construction of the 'twin' building of the Feltrinelli Foundation, as envisaged by the project by the Herzog & De Meuron studio.
“With the creation of the Resistance Museum – said Mayor Sala – Milan honors and exalts its identity as a city of the Resistance of all times, aligned with its citizens for freedom and against every regime. The project culminates uninterrupted cultural growth, which has seen the birth of 16 museums, artistic foundations and exhibition spaces in the last ten years. Milan, thanks to its history, attracts culture and gives it back, strengthening its image as a city with an international pace, truly beautiful and lively".
“The 15 million – explained Minister Franceschini – are added to the two and a half million already allocated for the House of Memory and will be used to create the National Museum of the Resistance that Milan, a two-time gold medal city, deserves and represents a project that the country absolutely needs. It is important that there is a national place to remind future generations of what our mothers and fathers did to give us that freedom that today we consider to be taken for granted and obvious, while it is not at all because they gave their lives and youth to obtain it."
From an urban planning point of view, the project of the building that will host the museum has been revised in light of the indications of the Superintendency to allow the maintenance of the remains of the Spanish Walls, found during the reclamation of the land where, for over sixty years, it was a fuel station in operation. It will be a smaller building than the twin of the Feltrinelli Foundation, with 700 square meters of public spaces, aimed at valorising the excavations, and a green area adjacent to the community garden named after Lea Garofalo.
Updated: 10/12/2019