Artillery Museum Turin
 Artillery museum in the mastio of the citadel of Turin |
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| place | Corso Galileo Ferraris 0 (corner of Via Cernaia), 10100 Turin |
| Art |
History museum, technology museum
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| architect | Francesco Paciotto |
| opening | 1731 |
| management |
Lucio Vinci
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The Artillery Museum in Turin ( it. Museo Storico Nazionale di Artiglieria ) is a military museum of the Italian army . It is based in the northern Italian city of Turin .
location
The headquarters of the museum is in the entrance building ( mastio ) of the former citadel of Turin on Corso Galileo Ferraris . A branch office with an attached depot is located in the Amione barracks in Piazza Rivoli .
exhibition
The artillery - Museum has about 11,000 exhibits and a historical horizon that until the Prehistory enough. In addition to modern artillery , armaments , draft animal harnesses , edged weapons , handguns , measuring instruments, ammunition of various kinds, as well as uniforms , medals , flags , paintings , photos , models and other memorabilia are exhibited. The oldest exhibits include a 5000-year-old double ax from the Copper Age and an Apulian-Corinthian helmet from the 6th century BC. The focus of the exhibition is on the modern Italian artillery . There is a new section on the history of the Turin Garrison .
history
The artillery museum of the Piedmontese and later Italian army was from 1731 on the order of Karl Emanuel III. set up by Savoy in the arsenal of Turin. It also served to train prospective artillery officers at the Artillery and Fortress Building School in Turin, founded by Ignazio Giuseppe Bertola Roveda in 1739 . In 1752 a mineralogical laboratory was added. During the Napoleonic occupation , numerous exhibits were stolen by the French. It was only rebuilt in 1842 and then expanded into the national artillery museum in 1861, as part of the unification of Italy . In 1893 the city of Turin made the former entrance building of the citadel available for the museum. Smaller modifications and extensions took place in 1961.
Due to extensive renovation work, the museum in the Mastio was closed in 2011 and all exhibits moved to the Amione barracks and some of them exhibited there. Another branch was in Via Bologna .
Others
Parts of the museum in the Mastio , in particular the underground mines of the citadel that still exist , belong to the Museo Pietro Micca , which is dedicated to the miner Pietro Micca , who saved the besieged city of Turin in 1706. The Micca Museum is located a few hundred meters west of the Mastio in Via Guicciardini
The Artillery Museum is not to be confused with the Armeria Reale , an important weapon collection in the Palazzo Reale .
Web links
- Representation in the Italian Army (Italian)
- Artillery Museum Turin on artiglieria.org (Italian)
Coordinates: 45 ° 4 ′ 16 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 28 ″ E