Galata Museo del Mare
Galata Museo del Mare stands at the heart of Genoa’s maritime story, housed since 2004 in the Palzzo Galata within the Porto Antico. The museum, the largest of its kind in the Mediterranean, anchors a modern approach to seafaring history in Italy. Its setting recalls the city’s long shipbuilding and trading life, formerly centered in the Darsena, where Genoa’s galleys were once built in the era of the Republic. The building’s renovation, led by Spanish architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, reshaped this historic district into a contemporary gateway to the sea. Inside, the museum offers a natural-scale Genoese galley replica and a suite of interactive spaces that reveal the experience of going to sea across eras. …
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