Historical Museum of the Landing in Sicily 1943

The Museum of the Landing in Sicily - 1943 is a didactic museum that throughout the reproduction of frameworks like a little quarter of the epoch,the reproduction of environments destroyed by the bombings , lead the visitor towards the awareness and knowledge of the history.


Along the route photographic and textual posters show the American advance, while some monitors show at the same time images of the advance of the American and British Troops.


In the first floor there is the octagonal hall.
The octagon, that is a computerized structure enlivened by lights and colours, simulates the allies’ advance.
On the four walls there are other monitors that project images of destroyed towns as Palermo, Messina and Catania.

The route continues with the exhibition halls: military uniforms and weapons of the period.

The Testimony hall is a very interesting stay of the Museum route for many young man and women and adults.

This is the testimony hall of men and women who lived the landing in Sicily. From the beginning of 2006, it has enriched the route of the Museum.

In the second floor five wax statues, moulded by the English craftsmen, reproduce Roosvelt, Winston Churchill, the King Vittorio Emanuele III, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

There is also the reproduction on real scale of the tent with the personages that on the 3rd September 1943 in Cassibile signed the armistice: the general Giuseppe Castellano and the Commander Bedell Smith.

The route ends with the image of the British Cemetery near Catania, where the remains of the fallen rest.

On a bright panel, placed on the feet of a sculpture in bronze, the names of the fallen flow.