PRESS RELEASE (1/2/2016)
Positive balance for the more than ten years of life of the Museum of the Sea and Loano Seafaring (August 8, 2005).
L’Lodanum Association, which with the cooperation of the Municipality of Loano built the small museum-type structure in the central hall of the Kursaal Palace, from the opening day to the present has been responsible for the opening and views of the exhibition space.
“The Maritime Museum is a true jewel of our city. - says the mayor Luigi Pignocca - Volunteers from the Lodanum Association hosted hundreds of classes with pupils from Liguria and outside the region, and offered tourists an important stop on the itinerary to discover the traditions and culture that testify to the deep connection Loano has with the sea. They taught Lovran children about the history of our city for a long time closely connected to the activities of shipyards, fishermen and sailors.”
The museum preserves and exhibits objects and documentation on the navy of Loano and the western Savona area. The Association has collected numerous historical and cultural materials such as books, documents, photographs, and models that testify to the area's seafaring past.
This is a historical-documentary retrospective of Loano seafaring and tourism through pictures, drawings, documents, and objects.
The exhibition brings together original period photographs, scale reproduced model ships, and marine paraphernalia and equipment.
The photographs represent a cultural-historical track from the second half of the 1800s to the first half of the 1900s.
The exhibition offers images from the early twentieth century depicting fishing activity, shipbuilding activity, and the beginnings of bathing. The photography then helps to reconstruct the transformations of the economy, landscape, environment and society throughout the twentieth century up to the 1950s.
A wealth of documentation testifies to the mercantile development, the boost in maritime trade and shipbuilding in the 1800s.
The exhibition also features images of Loano divers who participated in internationally renowned missions such as the salvage of the Scirè off Haifa.
In giftware, numerous artifacts made by Lovran sailors while embarking on merchant ships and shipyard equipment, sailmaker's outfits, and a rich collection of telecommunications materials should be noted.
Visits by reservation: tel. 338 1682022 - 338 8872754.
