Sant'Anna di Stazzema Historical Museum of the Resistance

The Historical Museum of the Resistance is housed in the village's old primary school.

It was inaugurated as a picture gallery in the autumn of 1982 by the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini. On 19 September 1991 it was transformed into the current Historical Museum of the Resistance by regional law.

Until June 2005, it hosted a historical-documentary exhibition, chronologically retracing the phases of the Resistance in Versilia and the massacres carried out by the Nazi-Fascists in the Tyrrhenian sector of the Gothic Line.

In February 2007, the current exhibition, designed by Pietro Carlo Pellegrini and divided into thematic sections (the war, the German occupation, the Resistance, the massacres) was inaugurated.

The upper floor hosts the exhibition I bambini ricordano (Children remember), where Oliviero Toscani's photos depict some survivors, children on 12 August 1944, alongside their testimonies.

The history of the Sant'Anna massacre is retraced in the Red Room; along with the history of historical research on the subject, right up to the trial proceedings against the defendants of the massacre, which ended on 22 June 2005 at the Military Court of La Spezia, which continued with the Appeal sentence in October 2006 and reached final ratification by the Supreme Court of Cassation in November 2007, with the confirmation of the life sentence of ten SS.

The exhibition was enhanced in 2013 with new multimedia installations by Space. A Hall of Remembrance was also created, a moment of concluding reflection for the visitor.

A sculptural reproduction of a detail from Picasso's 'Guernica' is placed on the external façade, next to the plaque bearing Calamandrei's Ode to Kesselring

The museum also houses a collection of paintings and sculptures. It includes an archive and a specialised library; it has a teaching room dedicated to Father Ernesto Balducci.