A traveler who will soon be in Italy will have two new travel options available. The first, the most “classic”, is to visit her Pompeii through a new direct rail link to Rome, to be completed in 2024 and aimed at further strengthening tourism.

The second option will be presented to the public earlier and will definitely not be of a tourist nature. Not as aesthetic or entertaining as it sometimes seems Italian mafia in the most superficial or idealized notions of film and television. No, museum on the topic Italian organized crimeaccording to The Art Newspaper, which will welcome its first visitors on May 23, will tell the “stories and sacrifices” of the country in its quest to fight the notorious Cosa Nostra of SicilyCamorra of Campania, Dragetta of Calabria and other mafia rings operating in its territory.

The opening date of the museum is not accidental. On May 23, 1992, in the city of Capacci, Judge Giovanni Falcone, who devoted himself to the dismantling of Cosa Nostra and scored important victories against it, was killed by the mafia with a powerful explosive device. The museum was the brainchild of the Falcone Foundation, headed by the judge’s sister, Maria Falcone. Like the criminal organization, this one too, but for completely opposite reasons, will have several branches, the first of which will open in the neoclassical Palazzo Jung in Palermo, followed by two more in Rome and Bolzano. Funding will come from both public and private funds.

The Mafia Museum will include archival materials such as documents, photographs and films related to the activities of Italian organized crime, as well as works of art that will be provided by other Italian institutions, as well as multi-sensory exhibits that will use sounds or smells that will contribute more experienced understanding of the history of the phenomenon.

Last May, the Falcone Foundation introduced a similar venture, but on a smaller scale. On the anniversary of the murder of Giovanni Falcone, a campaign was presented in Palermo with the creations of artists, referring to the years when the mafia dominated the region. One of the works created by Gregor Prüger and placed in the church of Santa Maria dello Spasimo was called “The Tree of All”. It was a spruce that had fallen on its side, and at the ends of its bare branches were carved figures of people killed by the mafia.