The Museum of the Risorgimento and the Resistance Movement is closely linked to the traditions, culture and social life of Vicenza and province -. It is located at Villa Guiccioli, on the hill of Ambelokipoi, where in 1848, the year originated heroic resistance movement. It was here that the inhabitants of Vicenza and other localities in the province defended their city. The Museum's collection is incredibly diverse and interesting. Its core consists of printed materials, Newspapers, magazines, manuscripts, portraits of historical figures, diaries of participants of events, proclamations, decrees, coins, medals, military maps, weapons, bayonets, sabers, flags, and military artifacts. The collection of documents and personal items provides an interesting perspective on local, national and, in some cases, European historical events since the first Italian campaign of Napoleon in 1796, the year before the end of the Second World war. This is the story of the sesquicentennial period, which changed the political, social and economic life of Italy and all of Europe.

Undoubtedly one of the most important collections of the Museum is the collection of Gabriele Fantoni, transferred to Vicenza in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His collection devoted to the history of the Risorgimento – the movement for the unification of Italy, especially its Vicentina branches from the end of the 18th century to the late 19th century. Here you can see announcements, proclamations and other materials that are in the middle of the 19th century produced the Venetian government. Noteworthy autographs and personal belongings of those who defended Venice and Vicenza during the Austrian siege. Also it is worth to get acquainted with a collection of Patriotic hymns, poems and songs written by unknown authors, and satire and humorous publications that shed new light on the morale of the people of that time. The collection of printed materials includes more than 4 thousand pamphlets published during the second half of the 19th century.