International Red Cross Museum

The International Red Cross Museum was placed in the 18th-century Triulzi-Longhi palace in 1959 on the initiative of Enzo Boletti

International Red Cross Museum, The International Museum of the Red Cross has been placed representing the path of the organization, from its birth to its evolution in the world of the eighteenth-century Palazzo Triulzi-Longhi in 1959 on the initiative of Enzo Boletti. In the halls of the museum are housed many surgical instruments, stretchers, field equipment, rescue vehicles, documents and many other tools used for relief at the time of the battle of Solferino in 1859, when a good part of the forty thousand wounded was transported to Castiglione where the priest Don Lorenzo Barzizza, coordinating the relief operations, transformed churches, public buildings and private houses into hospitals; initiative that inspired the Geneva-born Henry Dunant for the foundation of the organization.

Opening time:
from 1 April to 31 October 9.00-12.00 – 15.00-18.00
from 1 November to 31 March 9.00-12.00 – 14.00-17.00