Palazzo Pepoli - Museo della Storia di Bologna

Palazzo Pepoli is a multimedia museum of Bologna’s history. Don’t expect rows of historical artifacts, instead you’ll find videos, audio, and digital installations that use technology to tell the city’s story. It’s a contemporary approach: less about physical objects, more about immersive storytelling. The museum itself is in Italian, but an audio guide is available. Each room comes with short 1-3 minute commentaries. If you want to go deeper, Google Lens is useful to translate the written displays. Be aware: if you’re used to classic history museums where you explore artifacts and form your own narrative, this will feel very different. Personally, as someone more old-school, I found it a bit unusual but it’s definitely engaging if you appreciate a modern, multimedia perspective on history.

Not really a museum. More like a exhibition of reproductions . Don’t really know if it’s worth the 10 euros. I guess if it’s raining and you’ve done all there is to do in Bologna, it’s good to take a look.

After a few days in Bologna, we visited the Palazzo Pepoli to discover the story of Bologna which gave context to so much that we had enjoyed about the city. We spent 4 hours there with a coffee break between floors. We had the extra surprise of the 'Burattini a Bologna' exhibition on the upper floor! Volunteer Daniel Chiesa was very helpful telling us something of the puppets/ characters of Bologna that have their own spcial place in the story of Bologna.There are many beautiful handcrafted puppets to see, and check to see if there maybe a puppets show on in the little theatre. Tip- The audio guide you can download load to your phone is helpful but short. However, written descriptions will also be downloaded which are more helpful that the translation cards provided in the rooms. My husband used audio and I used the cards.

Although a lot of effort has been put into the style of the presentation (food multilingual audio, fun format displays etc), still it feels like a long history lecture. I wish there was more about the everyday life of locals at various stages of the history, for instance, and less about the family trees of the nobles. The early Etruscan and medieval sections were genuinely informative though, and the building is spectacular.

Not worth your time Only a handful of genuine historical objects are on display; the vast majority of the collection consists let's say of oversized PowerPoint slides—wall-to-wall text panels presented solely in Italian with no translations The air-conditioning is either broken or simply not switched on, leaving the interior stifling. The facilities are no better, with dirty restrooms and a faucet literally hanging by a thread that swivels and feels ready to snap off when you turn it. All these details add up to an overall unpleasant experience. If someone asked me whether this museum is worth a stop, my answer would be a definite no

Suprised me how good this exhibition was. Great art and multimedia made it an interesting history lesson. Bring your headphones and mobilephone to listen to the experiences in each room

If you're into the Osti brands, CP company, Stone Island, Boneville, st95 well worth a visit, only small but interesting and plenty to see and read, and it's free

Very cool and unique museum, it has an amazing collection of various works of art, technology, literature, sculptures, paintings and artifacts. It’s very beautiful interior, the collection is very well preserved and displayed. I really enjoyed my time here and I would definitely recommend visiting this museum.