The museum was founded in 1983 but officially established in 2000. It consists of two sections, one mainly dedicated to the Great War, and the other to the theme of emigration (especially to the mines of Belgium), particularly felt in these areas.
The base of the museum is municipal and consists of a former school building of the 1960s, with large spaces and well set up, with illuminated windows, gigantographs, a large model of the area and small dioramas to reproduce moments of the soldier’s life.
The museum also offers the public significant documentation on the experience of "recuperants", a great importance socio-economic phenomenon that has characterized for long years the areas affected by the war front.
Located in the fraction of Campo in Alano di Piave, the museum is in the area strategically relevant welding between the plain front and the mountain front, at the foot of the mount Tomba. The area was the theatre of violent fighting in the period between the arrest battle (November 1917) and the Italian offensive of late October 1918, which brought at the end of the war on November 4. In particular the area is affected by the events of the firts and second Battle of the Piave, when the Austrian pressure was concentrated in the triangle at whose vertices were the tops of the Tomba, Monfenèra and Cornella.
The museum can be the starting point for excursions to these significant fields battle.
- Adults € 6,00
- Children up to 6 years GRATIS
- Children 6 - 14 years € 3,00
- School groups € 3,00 each
- School groups (minimum 15 people) € 3,00 each
- Seniors over 65 years € 3,00