Museo del Tricolore
p.zza Casotti, 142121 Reggio Emilia
The museum is housed inside the Palazzo del Comune, the construction of which began in 1416 and saw several subsequent architectural interventions, including, in the years 1774-75, the design, entrusted to the architect Ludovico Bolognini, of a large hall originally intended as an archive and later used for meetings of the General Council and other meetings of particular importance. In particular, in November 1796, it was decided that the Centumviral Congress would be held in that hall: for this purpose, tribunes were built in the hall, which was called the Patriotic Hall. As is well known, the Tricolore, the flag of a sovereign state, was born here on 7 January 1797, soon to become the symbol of independence and national unity. Between 2004 and 2006, the Tricolour Museum was set up in premises overlooking the Tricolour Room, on two different floors.
In 2017, on the occasion of a general revision of the routes and the definition of a new dedicated entrance to the Museum, a section dedicated to contemporary art was inaugurated, which housed, alongside new workshop spaces, the important nucleus of works from the Novanta artisti per una bandiera (Ninety artists for one flag) project, commissioned by Deanna Veroni for the support of the Ospedale della Mamma e del Bambino (Mother and Child Hospital) and donated by the Storchi family to the city.