The tragedy
On Friday 27 june 1980 the DC9 Itavia, during the flight Bologna-Palermo, crashed into the sea causing the death of 81 passengers.
A special section of the museum is dedicated to the commemoration of this tragedy and documented through audio-video files which are available to the public thanks to Internet access.

Collection of the remains and set-up of the museum
On Wednesday 27^th June 2007, in occasion of the 27^th anniversary of the massacre, the Museo per la Memoria di Ustica was inaugurated and the remains of the plane – collected, transported and reassembled in the wide spaces of the former ATC warehouses, re-designed by the architect Gian Paolo Mazzucato – were shown to the public in the permanent installation of the artist Christian Boltanski.
The museum has been realised by Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Ministero della Giustizia, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Provincia di Bologna, Comune di Bologna; as will of Associazione dei Parenti delle Vittime della Strage di Ustica and with the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna.