The museum of the sea and the seafaring

Loano has always had a very close relationship with the sea. In addition to influencing its fantastic climate, the sea has always been the city’s primary economic resource, first with fishing, then with the shipyards and finally with the bathing facilities. Owners of vessels, ship captains, expert sailors, fishing craftsmen and divers specialized in recovery and underwater research lived in Loano. The Loano Sea and Marine Museum, the permanent exhibition set up in Palazzo Kursaal on the seafront, retraces the various stages of this relationship.

The Museum houses and exhibits many treasures: scale ship models,  equipment and fittings, photographs, documents and books, without forgetting shipbuilding and fishing tools, seafaring guidance tools, but also documents such as letters of credit and nautical licenses, maps and pilot books, logbooks, shells and much more.

Among the unmissable “gems” of the Museum are the Quasar A, a life-size (and really functional) submarine made entirely by hand by Mario Lentini, and a collection of diver’s equipment. Not everyone knows it, in fact, but the Loano divers have participated in internationally renowned missions such as the recovery of the “Scirè” off the coast of Haifa.

The exhibition was set up by the Associazione Culturale Marinara Lodanum with the collaboration of numerous other local associations and schools, which over time have joined and supported Laudanum to grow and implement the exhibition.

The exhibition can be visited free of charge at any time of the year and in the months of July and August also in the evening and by appointment. For information, you can contact: Riccardo Ferrari on 349.1038384 Teo Chirico on 393.2397910 The tourist information office on 019/7704832 or 328/8960085.