Organised as part of the celebrations for the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation, the show hinges on Leoncillo Leonardi’s sculpture The Partisan Woman, the first version of the Venetian monument to the Resistance that was destroyed by neo-fascists in 1961.
Alongside the sculpture are eight bronze models by artists who participated in the 1964 competition for a replacement monument – a competition subsequently won by Augusto Murer with the work that one can now see in the water off the Riva dei Sette Martiri.
The walls in the exhibition rooms for the models on the entrance floor are decorated with a series of silk-screens and etchings by Guttuso and Music on the themes of the Resistance and the Holocaust.

In occasion of the exhibition there will also be recitals – programme by Sandra Mangini – and guided visits for schools, both organised by the Instituto per la Resistenza.