Adamellina White War Museum

The Adamellina White War Museum is part of the Network of Great War Museums in Trentino and presents a collection of objects and memories from the Adamello-Carè Alto front.

Artifacts from the cave on Cavento on displayIt had long been awaited, complementing an already rich museum path full of history, thoughts, and reflections. The reference is to the Adamellina White War Museum of Spiazzo which, starting from summer 2021, presents a new setup guiding visitors to discover that incredible treasure of human memory in wartime that is the gallery of Corno di Cavento (at 3,400 m above sea level, the symbolic peak of the White War in Adamello, contested between the Austro-Hungarian and Italian armies) with artifacts recovered in recent years.

The galleryThe gallery, whose existence was known but whose precise location was not, was revealed starting from the warm summer of 2003 marked by significant melting of snow and ice. Then, from 2007 to 2010, it was recovered by the Autonomous Province of Trento (Superintendence for Historical and Artistic Heritage and Mountain Basin Service) together with the Tridentine Alpine Society and Alpine Guides. Since 2011, it has also been visitable through guided tours. Some of the recovered and restored objects, bearing witness to an incredible and dramatic daily life above 3000m altitude, are now visible at the Adamellina White War Museum of Spiazzo.

Adamellina White War Museum
"Recovering in Val Rendena" | Spiazzo

The Museum and its originsThe Museum is part of the Network of Great War Museums in Trentino and displays a collection of objects and memories from the Adamello-Carè Alto front.
The collection is preserved and enhanced by the Adamellina White War Historical-Cultural Association 1915-18. The Museum was born from the desire of Sergio Collini and Giovanni Pellizzari to preserve what had been recovered on the glaciers of Adamello-Carè Alto since the 1970s, following the retreat of the glaciers that began to yield relics of memory.

What to seeAmong the most significant testimonies in the exhibition, there are Austrian maps concerning the assault on Corno di Cavento, photographs by Lieutenant Fabrizio Battanta who participated in the Italian reconquest of the summit, letters and documents from combatants and veterans. Then the original diary of Lieutenant Felix Hecht von Eleda, commander of the Austro-Hungarian garrison of Corno di Cavento, who died at 23 defending Cima Carè Alto, wooden crosses made by Russian prisoners, and sleds recovered on the glacier.