Museo Internazionale delle Guerre Mondiali a Rocchetta al Volturno

The International Museum of the World Wars (MIGM) was established on December 16, 2010. It is located in the premises of an old oil mill owned by the municipality and given on loan to the Historical and Cultural Association 1943-1944. It was inspired by the battle in which, in March 1944 - after the clash of Mignano Monte Lungo - the Italian Liberation Corps faced and defeated the Germans in the battle of Monte Marrone. The exhibition area is over 900 square meters on two floors and is divided into twelve rooms. Although it has the ambition and the objective of narrating the daily life of men at arms in the two world wars and in the long post-war period of the 20th century, it remains fundamentally focused on remembering the battles that took place near the front of Cassino between 1943 and 1944, from whose battlefields the first nucleus of material came. Attention to other moments, aspects and problems is entrusted above all to temporary exhibitions and other events, although materials and documents related to the Navy and to countries not involved in the local events, such as Japan, are also on display. The arrangement is based almost on a catalographic criterion that exhibits the materials - sometimes rare - taking into account above all their correspondence with the weapon of belonging and nationality.
About 150 original uniforms and individual equipment are exhibited, worn on mannequins, without necessarily being composed in scenes and environments. A large space on the upper floor is the "technical room", dedicated to the display of a large collection of about 300 individual weapons. But military life and activity is also documented with other equipment, such as two-way radios, cots, boxes, lockers, sanitary equipment, etc., as well as flags, bardelle and other insignia identifying corps and departments. Some attention is also paid to propaganda tools, medals and stamps.
Inside the large rooms of the Migm, in fact, the visitor can stop and admire 10 rooms where only original historical materials are exhibited: from the uniforms of the various fighting armies, to the countless war accessories and, finally, weapons of every shape. The first room is dedicated to the uniforms and war material of the First World War, while in the second and third rooms there are numerous uniforms of the Italian army of the Twenties and Thirties, as well as of the Second World War, including the rare uniforms of the sanitary departments. The whole building follows in the most scrupulous way the current safety and accessibility norms, guaranteeing also the easy entrance, through the elevator, to disabled people and people with motor difficulties.