Museum of the Risorgimento and the Resistance Movement is closely connected with the traditions, culture and social life, and the entire province of Vicenza .  It is located in Villa Guichcholi on a hill Ambellikopoli where in 1848 was born the heroic resistance movement .  This is where the people of Vicenza and other settlements of the province defended their city .  The museum's collections are incredibly diverse and interesting .  Its core consists of printed materials, newspapers, magazines, manuscripts, portraits of historical figures, the diaries of participants of events, proclamations, decrees, coins, medals, military maps, weapons, bayonets, swords, flags and military artifacts .  Collection of documents and personal items is an interesting look at local, national and, in some cases, European historical events since the first Italian campaign of Napoleon in 1796, the year before the end of the Second World War .  This is the story of the century and a half, which changed the political, social and economic life in Italy and all over Europe . 

Undoubtedly, one of the most important collections of the museum is a collection of Gabriele Fantoni transferred them Vicenza in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. His collection is devoted to the history of the Risorgimento - the movement for the unification of Italy, especially its Vicentina branches from the late 18th century to the late 19th century. Here you can see the ads, leaflets and other materials that are in the middle of the 19th century Venetian government has released. Noteworthy autographs and personal belongings of those who defended Venice and Vicenza during the Austrian siege. Also it is necessary to get acquainted with a collection of patriotic hymns, poems and songs written by unknown authors, and satire and humorous publications sheds new light on the morale of the people of that time. Collection of printed material includes over 4 thousand pamphlets published in the second half of the 19th century.