The Great War museum is set up in the disused railway station of Cividale, a historic building from 1886, this small museum collects relics, original weapons, uniforms and photographs of the armies operating on the Italian front during the First World War. The rooms on the ground floor and the basement offer the visitor a complete picture of the conflict’s timeline. The museum was inaugurated on May 23rd 2015, exactly 100 years after the entry of the Kingdom of Italy in the First World War.

The first three rooms, through 19 panels, analyze the various phases of the Great War, the reasons for the conflict, the Karst, the 11 battles of the Isonzo, the position war on the mountains of Trentino, on the Asiago plateau, on the Dolomites, in Carnia, on Monte Nero, the battle of Caporetto, the retreat on the Piave and Monte Grappa and the final victory of the Italian army in 1918.

Of particular interest are the uniforms in the room dedicated to the years 17 and 18, with the uniform of the Wuttemberg mountain soldier where Lieutenant Erwin Rommel, protagonist of the battle of Caporetto, operated. Among the relics stand out the ice ax of second lieutenant Alberto Picco, conqueror of Monte Neo and some objects that belonged to Gen. Luigi Olivieri from Cividale, the last commander of the Cividale battalion.

One room is dedicated to a perfect reconstruction of a trench with a dressing room in a hut, a shelter in a cave, posts for riflemen with protective shields and fences.

The last room on the ground floor houses a faithful reconstruction of the Cividale-Caporetto narrow gauge military railway line, built by the Italian Military Engineers during the first half of the war.

The basement has been divided in two rooms: in one we find the exhibition "La Guerra In Fame", with extensive details on the feeding of armies and prisoners. The other is dedicated to the perfect reproduction of the Italian Fiat-Revelli model 14 machine gun, an original piece, a weapon that revolutionized the way of fighting, forcing soldiers to spend endless days in the trenches.

A unique journey, an indelible moment in our history, so terribly current...

Museum Hours: Saturday and Sunday from 9.00 to 12.00 and from 15.30 to 18.30

Address: Viale Guglielmo Marconi, 43

Free entry

We remind you that it is currently necessary to show the super greenpass