Genoa Sea Museum is the largest museum dedicated to this genus in the Mediterranean area and also one of the most modern in Italy.
Galata is a historic district of Istanbul, and, until the 15th century, the seat of one of the most important Genoese communities in the Mediterranean. Therefore at the end of the nineteenth century, when the Municipality of Genoa built a district of commercial docks, the oldest of these was given the name of the ancient colony.
In the nineteenth century, "the Galata" already had a long history of almost three centuries: in its lower part, in fact, the galleys of the Republic of Genoa were built and the building was part of the Arsenale, the most important military and maritime complex of the city.
In the twentieth century, “il Galata” lost its commercial function and was abandoned. At the end of the 90s, the Municipality decided to establish here the seat of the future maritime museum of Genoa.
Inaugurated in 2004, the museum is located in the Galata Palace, whose renovation was designed by the Spanish architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra.
The museum houses, in addition to a full-scale reproduction of a Genoese galley, several interactive rooms in which to understand what it meant, in different eras, to go to sea.
One of these is the exhibition "La Merica" ??which shows the journey of our ancestors to America.
There are numerous rooms dedicated to maritime trade and going to sea at the time of the maritime republic of Genoa.
The museum also exhibits a section dedicated to ocean liners with nautical charts and a storm simulation off Cape Horn.
The Galata - Sea Museum also offers an exhibition hall, library, café with terrace.
It is the seat of activities with schools, also favored by the proximity of the museum complex to the Genova Principe station and the proximity of the "Darsena" underground stop.
In 1978, off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, Ambrogio Fogar's boat was probably hit by an orca or a tidal wave and soon sank.
Ambrogio and his travel companion Mauro Mancini manage to get to safety on a raft where they were saved 74 days later, but unfortunately Mancini did not survive.
In 2010, 32 years later, the Fogar family decided to donate the raft to the Galata - Museum of the sea in Genoa.
There are also some autographed documents of Christopher Columbus.
Genoa Sea Museum - Virtual Tour 360°
Address: Calata Ansaldo De Mari, 1, 16126
Phone: 010 2345655
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