The Museum of the Resistance conserves about 80 works from the second half of the twentieth century, all inspired by the terrible events in Sant’Anna in Stazzema in 1944.

The collection took shape over the course of the years thanks to donations by artists connected to the Apuan and Versilio areas, and with representatives from other parts of Italy (Pietro Annigoni, Gualtiero Nativi, Marco Nereo Rotelli) and abroad (Henry Marinsky).
These are mainly paintings, but there are also some examples of sculptures and installations.

After restoration in 1993 the Civic Museum was set up again in the north turret of Villa Paolina — today seat of the Civic Museums of Viareggio — in the studio in which the painter Alfredo Catarsini (1899–1993) had worked for over fifty years, from after the war until his death. Here are conserved works, photographs and documents relative to the artist’s long working life and his links with his home territory.

Catarsini, whose early career grew in the shadow of Modigliani and Viani, met success while still young, thanks to a painting that conveyed the picturesqueness of the Versilia landscape in a fresh twentieth-century language.
He adhered then to the avant-gardist renewal of Italian art in the course of the two periods that he himself called “riflessismo” (reflectionism) and “simbolismo meccanico” (mechanical symbolism).