The Civic Museum Collection Don Cesare Amelli is inserted into the Visconti Castle Medici;a "receptum" built in 1243;and with Bernabo Visconti took the typical four-sided structure with a high corner towers.In 1512 the castle passed to the Marquis Brivio and in 1532 to Gian Giacomo Medici family Nosigia of Milan;transforming the village of Melegnano in marquisate.In 1981 the Medici family sold the castle to the Province of Milan;who two years later;with an exchange;a few rooms left at the town administration of Melegnano.Restoration began in 1998 at first and then the surrounding areas of the rooms with frescoes painted in the mid-sixteenth century.The reopening of the building was in October 2001 with the inclusion of civic museum collection dedicated to prof Don Cesare Amelli (1924-2002);local historian;who collects historical artifacts of the battle in Melegnano Risorgimento took place on the afternoon of June 8 1859;one of the Risorgimento battles of the Second War of Independence.