The great new feature of 2025 and increasingly the focus of international media and cultural attention, the Byron and Risorgimento Museums are experiencing an extraordinary moment thanks to the worldwide interest surrounding this fascinating cultural hub, promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna and by the Museums’ creator, Antonio Patuelli.
“The Byron and Risorgimento Museums share an important similarity with the University of Bologna: they seek—with success—to be internationally attractive. In Baku, President Mattarella reminded us that we Italians are the world’s leading exporters of culture, and this ability to connect the world unites us with the Museums inaugurated by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna,” said Rector Giovanni Molari, as he received the ‘Silver Crozier – Lifetime Achievement Award’, an honour bestowed by the Accademia degli Incamminati during a ceremony held this morning in the Sala Muratori of the Biblioteca Classense.
The visit of Robin Byron, great-grandson of the great English Romantic poet, and his wife Robyn to the Byron and Risorgimento Museums, together with the precious gift of his ancestor’s walking stick, has once again projected the Museums—opened just 10 months ago—onto the pages of the major international newspapers.
Just days after the official visit of the Heads of State of the Republic of San Marino, Denise Bronzetti and Italo Righi, another major event has shone an international spotlight on the Byron and Risorgimento Museums.
The Byron and Risorgimento Museums can now be enjoyed in a wholly new way; the stories of the English poet and the Carbonari, of Garibaldi and Countess Guiccioli will exert a special fascination on those visitors and journalists from all over the world who explore the enchanting palazzo and its noble courtyard in the twilight and amid the shades of summer evenings. This is the exciting novelty for July and August 2025: visitors to Ravenna will find the Byron and Risorgimento Museums open in the evening every Wednesday from July 2 to August 27, until 10pm, as part of the “Mosaico di Notte” programme.