This unique Museum was founded on the initiative of Glauco Lombardi (1881-1970) and exhibits a prestigious collection of art and historical items regarding Maria Luigia of Habsburg and her first husband Napoleon Bonaparte; important works and documents concerning the Duchy of Parma in the 18th and 19th centuries are also kept by the Museum. From 1997 to 1999 the museum underwent a complete, very difficult restoration, which became necessary after the acquisition of new buildings that, while changing little of the original order and criteria of display planned and desired by Glauco Lombardi, made it possible to provide the museum structure with more modern and effective systems of security and utilization.