Genoa: Galata Maritime Museum and Nazario Sauro Submarine｜Italy

Discover the Galata Maritime Museum in Genoa, inaugurated in 2004, and designed by the Catalan architect Guillermo Vasques Consuegra. Explore the museum's 31 halls on 5 floors and end your visit outdoors on the Belvedere, with a breathtaking view of the port and the old town.

See the Nazario Sauro Submarine, an integral part of the Galata Open Air Museum. The submarine offers a unique opportunity to get to know the living conditions of sailors aboard a real submarine. Built by Fincantieri for the Italian Navy in 1976, it was abandoned in 2002 and then donated to Mu.MA.

Since 2010, it has been open – the only boat of its kind in Italy – docked at the waterfront of the Galata Museum. The restoration has maintained maximum fidelity to the original, made even more realistic by the sound effects that simulate its full operation.

The visitor is accompanied along a lively chronological and thematic path at the same time, which has man and the sea as unifying elements. Finds of maritime culture, works of art, and immersive environments alternate, starting from the story of Christopher Columbus to contemporary migrations, passing through the ages of rowing and galleys, sailing ships, and steamships.

A collection of paintings of the sea between the 1800s and 1900s, overlooking a large terrace with a garden of Mediterranean shrubs, precedes the path dedicated to the ocean liner Andrea Doria and the story of its sinking in 1956. The visit to the floor ends with the Mirador terrace from which you can enjoy a 360° view over the old town and the harbor arch.