Museo Storico Navale
Naval history museum in Castello, Venice, Italy
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The Museo Storico Navale is a naval history museum located in the Castello district of Venice, near the Venetian Arsenal. The museum was established by the Regia Marina (the Italian Royal Navy) in 1919.[1] Its collections include items relating to the naval and maritime history of Venice, and it has a large number of ship models and weapons on display.[2]
The entrance to the Museo Storico Navale | |
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| Established | 1919 |
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| Location | Castello, Venice |
| Coordinates | 45.43275°N 12.34997°E |
| Type | Naval history |
| Website | Museo Storico Navale |
- The Tegetthoff anchor. Tegetthoff is an oceanographic vessel with sails and an auxiliary engine.
- Sailing gun of 9 pounds in bronze and iron, used on military and merchant ships between the 16th and 17th centuries. Found off the Lido of Venice.
- 16th-century Venetian canon - Work by Marco di Conti.
- Turkish bronze mortar, side view
- 120 - Pounder culverin with the muzzle cut 16th century; Originating from the fortress of Famagusta.
- 12-Pounder, breech-loading fork gun, to launch stone cannonballs. 16th centuries
- 10-barrel machine gun.
- 35 mm Trench Gun (World war I).
- Model of mortar of the XVIIth century
- World War II - Combat swimmer's equipment.
- Fortress of Chania, island of Crete
- The town of Nafplio in the Peloponnesus.
- Palmanova - Porta Udine
- Lantern from a 16th-century Venetian galley
- Model of the Bucentaur (Venetian ship).
- Terminal decorations on the sides of a Genoese galley (18th century)
- Sculptures of the flagship bastard galley Francesco Morosini, 1684
- Sculptures of the flagship bastard galley Francesco Morosini, 1684
- Leone Marciano, formerly the stern ornament of the brigantine ‘San Marco’ – (18th century)
- Ornamental frieze from the frigate of the royal Sadrinian navy - (18éme century)
- Boat for navigating underwater
