Napoleonic Museum

The Ligurian Napoleonic Cartographic Prints Museum is housed in the rooms of Villa Scarzella and it is part, together with the Castle and the garden, of the Del Carretto Castle monumental complex, owned by the Municipality of Millesimo. The entire museum complex, opened in 1979, consists of an important collection of prints, drawings, maps, posters and notices that testify to the events related to the victorious Italian Campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The series of interesting etching exhibited here, which shows the precise chronology of the events, is organized as the following sections:

– battles of 1795;

– beginning of the Campaign of 1796;

– battles of Monte Legino and Montenotte;

– conquest of Millesimo and Cosseria;

– battle of Dego;

– French occupation in Val Bormida and Liguria;

– Department of Montenotte.

Numerous works by landscape painters, military engineers and topographers who have carefully documented the Napoleonic campaigns in Italy are also exposed; among these the works of the painter and architect Pietro Bagetti stand out.

In the rooms of the Museum a series of models reproduces some scenes inspired by the clashes on the Val Bormida battlefields.

The Museum collection also includes several and different military and civil finds unearthed on the battle grounds.