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.

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

Not a classic/usual history museum, more of an immersive multimedia storytelling about Bologna.

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

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.

Included in the Welcome Bologna card, and a super detailed history of the city in a very innovative series of rooms... A very under-appreciated museum! Get the audio guide which is well worth it, and give yourself a good 90 minutes.

Excellent museum about the history of Bologna, with a great mix of stories and objects.