The museum, opened in 2002, is one of the few ones in Italy dedicated to the deportation of people to concentration and labour camps. What is new in the exhibition is the connection between the Resistance and deportation, highlighted through the remembrance of the two major episodes that occurred in the area, namely the deportation of people - particularly workers - caught in the March 1944 strikes and the killing of twenty-nine partisans who were about to reach Prato to occupy the town centre before the arrival of the Allies.

The museum features an exhibition dedicated to German concentration camp with the display of original objects. In 2010, an audio-visual route was inaugurated along which visitors can listen to excerpts of interviews given by Jews, political deportees, but also Jehovah's Witnesses, Sinti, Roma and homosexuals - mostly from Tuscany - who survived the death camps.