Historic War Museum – Punta Corbin Fort

The Punta Corbin Fort is an Italian fortress of World War I, which belongs to the group of structures of the line of fortifications built in the early 1900s on the Asiago Plateau. Active only in the first year of fighting, Corbin Fort had a marginal role in the unfolding of the events of war, it was occupied by the Austro-Hungarian troops during the Strafexpedition of 1916 and then taken over by the Italians. At the end of the conflict it was used for training, and later abandoned. In the course of the 1900s it was plundered by the “excavators”, sold by the State and purchased in 1942 by the Panozzo family, which since 1982 has been taking care of the recovery. Over the years the owners have carried out ​​a conservation, keeping the fort’s condition as faithful as possible to the original, and for that reason the building was also appreciated as a scenery for historical documentaries. In 2009, the museum of the fort was further developed with the publication of a specific guide on the Corbin, suitable for all types of visitors.
Frequent maintenance works caused many findings to emerge from the rubble to enrich the collection on display.
The amount of objects, photographs and documents found over the years prompted the owners to set up a new, larger museum, opened in the summer of 2011.