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Diego de Henriquez War Museum for Peace

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Infos

tel. +39 040 675 4699
museodehenriquez@comune.trieste.it
museodiegodehenriquez.it

 

Address

Museo di guerra per la pace “Diego de Henriquez”
via dei Tominz 4

Details

admission fee
opening hours and admission price on the museum website

This is not a “war” museum in the common sense of the term, but a museum of 20th century society in conflict with its own demons and horrors, on the long and hindered journey towards a yearned-for, lasting peace.

The Henriquez collection of approximately 15,000 inventoried objects, including 2,800 weapons, 24,000 photographs, 287 diaries comprising 38,000 pages, 12,000 books, 2600 posters and leaflets, 500 prints, 470 geographical and topographical maps, 30 archives, 290 music files, 150 pictures and a film archive (with 250 film documents stored at the Istituto Luce in Rome), was bequeathed to the City of Trieste by his heirs in 1983.

Precisely in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War, on July 28, 2014, in the redeveloped buildings n. 3 and 4 of the former barracks of the district "Duca delle Puglie" of Via Cumano 22-24, the first segment of the assembly Civic War Museum for peace "Diego de Henriquez" dedicated to the First World War was inaugurated.

The exhibition, divided into sections and also characterised by infographic solutions, photographic enlargements and video stations, accompanies the visitor through the contexts and the highlights of the war, from the attack in Sarajevo to the Armistice of Villa Giusti contextualising at the same time, the multiple, and in some cases unique, exposed materials (guns, revolving vehicles, military equipment and weapons, posters, examples of "trench art" and much more).

On the first floor, after a description of the history and conditions of Trieste during the war, the reasons concerning the Second World War are revealed, which will be deepened in buildings n. 8 and 10 in the process of improvement and construction.

There is also a space dedicated to the life and work of Diego de Henriquez, from whose collections the current Museum has arisen. its objective is to "show the war to educate for peace".

A long panel which summarises "The Century of War" highlighting the most significant conflicts from 1894 to 2016, leads the visitor to the last room, the one dedicated to temporary exhibitions.

On the first floor, after a description of the history and conditions of Trieste during the war, the reasons concerning the Second World War are revealed, which will be deepened in buildings n. 8 and 10 in the process of improvement and construction.

There is also a space dedicated to the life and work of Diego de Henriquez, from whose collections the current Museum has arisen. its objective is to "show the war to educate for peace".

A long panel which summarises "The Century of War" highlighting the most significant conflicts from 1894 to 2016, leads the visitor to the last room, the one dedicated to temporary exhibitions.

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