It is located in the former convent of San Francesco, on the first floor of the seventeenth-century cloister known as "Dante," next to the Poet's tomb, decorated with a bas-relief by Pietro Lombardo in 1483 and rebuilt in 1780 by Camillo Morigia. It is divided into two sections curated respectively by the Opera di Dante of the Municipality of Ravenna and the Centro Dantesco of the Friars Minor Conventuals. The first, inaugurated in 1921 on the initiative of the Committee for the celebrations of the sixth centenary of Dante's death coordinated by Corrado Ricci, collects the tributes sent in 1908 and 1921, when the D'Annunzian enterprise of Fiume had made Dante the symbol of Irredentism, the casket that had contained the Poet's bones, as well as the projects awarded in the competition announced by the Ministry of Public Education in 1921 for the decoration of the interior of the adjacent Basilica of San Francesco.