The history of the Marzoli Mine in Pezzaze came to be thanks to the Brescian pharmacist Giuseppe Ragazzoni who, in the 1880s, designed the diretta, the main gallery that visitors now travel through by train. 

The mine, decommissioned in 1972, has been open to the public since December 1999. Later in 2011, it was refurbished with a modern sound system that makes visitors relive the original sounds and voices.

The need to keep in touch with one's roots and the changed epochal context, accompanied by a different sensitivity, has allowed the rediscovery of this 'world of the defeated', of these people who never appeared as protagonists in the history books, but who made history anyway, even if underground.

Rather than static museums, we can speak of 'Places of Memory', where it is not cold displays of objects that characterise the site, but the shimmering presence of those who used those objects, where the memory and remembrance of those who came before us is transmitted to the visitor.