Museo Navale Romano

Small but worth a visit

Great to visit with teenagers who’s typical attention span is no more than 30 minutes. Museum tells the story of saving the remains of a vessel and its cargo found on the bottom of the sea, and what i...

really inspiring little museum

Housed in a crumbling old palace, this museum is wonderful - there is not an enormous amount to see, but it offers a real look into the sophistication of lives, import and export, and the sophisticate...

Not a lot to see

Checked out this small museum on a Tuesday morning in April. Tickets were sold in a small ticket office not far from the Cathedral and the salesperson brought us to the museum and up the stairs and ra...

A very physical representation of an ancient time

This is so far from the English description which would equate "Naval Museum" with guns, campaigns, wars. . . Here is an exquisite collection of the hundreds of heavy-duty amphorae, lost with their c...

A salvaged Roman ship on view

It is somewhat moving to look at those thousands vessels standing in rows that were recovered from the bottom of the sea nearly two thousand years after the shipwreck (many more are still lying there)...