Gorizia's Museo della Grande Guerra reopens with multimedia focus

The Museo della Grande Guerra in Gorizia has reopened after intensive restoration, coinciding with the city's role as European Capital of Culture 2025 alongside Nova Gorica, Slovenia. Curated by Alessandra Martina and Lucio Fabi, the museum features trilingual descriptions in Italian, Slovenian, and English, and a multimedia setup across 10 rooms. It explores daily life for Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers and civilians, the destruction of Gorizia and surrounding villages, and the memory of World War I. New additions include a multimedia table showing Gorizia's wartime destruction (the city was on the front line for about 30 months) and a final section on memory, focusing on monuments and shrines built in subsequent years, mostly under fascism. The historical diorama of the battlefield has been enhanced with multimedia integrations by Ikon, along with interactive stations and explanatory videos. The museum has improved accessibility with ramps, elevators, platforms, and stairlifts. Free admission is offered for a week until July 25, 2025. The Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Culturale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, which manages the museum, plans further conferences and cultural initiatives to explore the war narrative from both sides of the divided city. The museum originally opened in 1990 under Maria Masau Dan with an innovative focus on everyday life, a perspective now revived and expanded digitally.