Anzio BeachHead Museum is a fascinating destination for history enthusiasts. Located in Anzio, Italy, the museum offers an incredible collection of artifacts and audio-visual materials from the 1944 Allied landings and the Battle of Anzio. The director and staff of the museum have a passion for the history of this region and are welcoming to all who visit. The museum provides a treasure trove of information about the Anzio landings, with exhibits showcasing the bravery of the soldiers who fought here. The Anzio BeachHead Museum offers visitors an opportunity to learn about an important moment in history and pay homage to the brave men and women who served in this battle.
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Incredible little museum. So much crammed into a small space. Really impressed. They opened up especially for us that day so a huge thank you to the staff.
We must learn and study history to prepare for the future. I was so happy to be able to enter the museum. Thank you so much.
Well-intentioned museum that doesn’t meet the mark except for diehards. That said, hopefully tourists, especially Americans, will make a brief stop by cultural obligation.
There’s no story here, no narrative, no big text explaining exhibits and how they connect. What was the Anzio landing about? You’d be hard-pressed to learn the answer here, unfortunately. If you already know, you have historical scaffolding around which to wrap these artifacts. If you didn’t walk in knowing, it’s just a bunch of stuff with little to no context.
Artifacts are mostly without captions; where there are captions, they’re only in Italian. Presentations appear not to have been updated in many years. That doesn’t necessarily make them poor exhibits, but here given the lack of curation, it suggests there’s been little effort toward improvement in a long time.
Volunteer, shoestring operations try really hard. I'm certain the people who run this museum do their best.
I’m surprised and saddened Italy can’t seem to get a museum together to properly tell this story, in whole or at least a microcosm. I’d hoped Anzio might be more than “here’s a bunch of stuff.” It wasn’t.
The good news is museum has a core collection of artifacts, and that’s the hard part. If they offer a multilingual narrative & captions, that’d go a long way toward making this museum accessible to mainstream visitors.
The big United States flag is hung backward. Hopefully it will be get adjusted properly.
VISITED: 31 October 2021; no entry charge; donations accepted.
What a fantastic treasury of artefacts of the Anzio landings. The director (and our guide) is an amazin man with a passion for the history of this little known jem. Well worth taking a trip to visit.
This museum is great! Patrizio gave our ROTC group a personal tour, and you can tell he is passionate about Anzio and what happened. We highly recommend this museum.
Amazing museum!! Wonderful staff too. I emailed them in advance of my visit since they are usually closed on Wednesday and they opened the museum so that I was able to visit. Incredible collection of wwii items in this small museum. It's easy to visit by train from Rome and just a short walk from the museum to Anzio beach.
Interesting piece of WW2 history. Battle of Anzio is quite forgotten battle of European campaign, but this little exhibition gave a quite good glimpse of it. Some items seemed to be a bit out of context, some english descriptions would've been nice. Anyway, nice museum, nice staff, they didn't even charge us, but we made a donation.
The museum was actually closed but director opened for us. Lovely hidden place.
Location
Via di Villa Adele, 2, 00042 Anzio RM, Italy
Hours
- Monday Close
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Tuesday
10:30 AM - 01:00 PM04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
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Wednesday
10:30 AM - 01:00 PM04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
- Thursday Close
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Friday
10:30 AM - 01:00 PM04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
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Saturday
10:30 AM - 01:00 PM04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
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Sunday
10:30 AM - 01:00 PM04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
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