A national museum is to be built in Milan dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement during the second world war, Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini has announced. After years of discussion, ministers on Monday signed off on funding for the Museo Nazionale della Resistenza to be built in central Milan, local media reports.

Italy's culture ministry has added €15 million in funding to the €2.5 million already set aside for the project. The museum, dedicated to the memory of Italian anti-fascist resistance ghters, known as partigiani, will be housed in a new pyramid-shaped building, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, to be built in Milan's Piazza Baiamonti