Museo Civico Pietro Micca (Civic Museum Pietro Micca)

The museum has its seat in a two-floor building, one of them underground. The building, realized in 1961 for the celebration of the centenary of the unification of Italy, stands in the place in which during the siege operations, there were a French battery of two big pieces of ordnance in a place where it was easy to pull down the walls of the Cittadella.

Civic Museum Pietro Micca

The building is directly linked to the underground system of mine-disposal galleries of the Cittadella, representing the true "heart" of the museum.

In the two exhibitions rooms, besides the various objects found in the gallery and in the same staircase of Pietro Micca, are also represented to the public, models of modern realization which illustrate the underground system of galleries and their use in a period of siege.

Moreover, in the underground room is screened during the tours a colour short-film of the episode in which Pietro Micca was the main character in the night between August 29th and 30th, 1706.

In 1968 the Association "Amici del Museo Pietro Micca e dell'Assedio di Torino del 1706" was constituted; its main aims are the support of the museum itself and the promotion of cultural activities regarding the history of the city of Turin and the Savoy dukedom.

Among the several groups which constitute the association there is the "Gruppo Storico Pietro Micca della città di Torino", which was born in 1974 with the aim to reconstruct in an historical and dynamic way some military corps of the Savoy dukedom, that distinguished themselves by protecting the city during the French siege of May-September 1706.