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Typology: Historical Museum

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Address: Via Giorgio Pelosi, 41
Zone: Quartiere Giuliano Dalmata (Roma sud)
Presso Comando Caserma "Artale"

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Description

The Museum is located in the Corps Headquarters building, in the Artale Barracks, Cecchignola Military City.
It was inaugurated on 12 January 2006 and is divided into three large rooms. It includes memorabilia (8 flags, 12 historical uniforms and 75 headgear) and a large number of documents, photographs, weapons, etc..

The first room covers the Order's Armed Forces, the predecessors of the Military Corps, starting with the Landing Battalion in the 16th century and the defence of Malta in the Great Siege. Then come the Order's Navy, the Grand Master's Guard, the Regiment of Malta, the Regiment of Hunters, the Cavalry and the Artillery. Some curiosities follow: the Piedmontese "Crocebianca" regiment and the Spanish "Malta" regiment, which all had officers who were Knights of the Order, with the two papal regiments "Ruspoli" and "Falconieri", which were also made official by the Order. This was followed by the Russian regiment "Chevaliers Gardes", whose formation decree defined it as the "horse guard of the Grand Master".

In 1877, the epic of the Military Corps began with the photos of the first hospital trains and the 'Milan Nurses Company', the first uniforms and the first exercises, called 'experiments' at the time. A crescendo of events follows: the 1908 Calabrian-Sicilian earthquake, the 1911 Italo-Turkish war, with the Corps present with its hospital ship "Regina Margherita", and the First World War, with the Corps always present on the front line. Among the relics, the flag that flew over the field hospital of Monfalcone. The second room includes: the Military Corps and the new Uniform Regulations of 1935, illustrated in great detail in a series of splendid colour plates. There is also a large model of a hospital train, 8 metres long. In the room there is the flag of the Lviv Aid Post on the Russian front and many photographs illustrating the use of hospital trains during the Second World War. There are also two field altars that served on trains, and a monumental kitchen, also from a train. The third room contains the Corps' two territorial hospitals, in Rome and Naples, in World War II. This is followed by the organisation of hospitals and aid stations in the territory of Roma Città Aperta, including the home for mutilated children at the Quirinale and the Military Corps in the territory of the Social Republic.

In the post-war period, the Military Corps was involved in the management of 18 hospitals, scattered throughout the Italian peninsula, for the rehabilitation of soldiers and civilians, injured or traumatised by recent war events. It also illustrates the almost twenty years of cooperation with the Italian Air Force, with the personnel and aircraft of the 36th. Stormo, both for natural disasters (such as Agadir) and pilgrimages (such as Lourdes). The last part of the room is dedicated to the natural disasters that hit the country after the war, the Corps' normal training activities and military ceremonies. The entire museum was conceived and executed by Major Vitetti, Grand Cross of Grace and Devotion of the Order, and one of the country's greatest experts on military history and uniformology.

Last checked: 2021-07-21 15:19