Museo del Porto

About the museum

The museum is housed in a twentieth-century industrial building known as “La Piccola”, part of the old railway station built in 1872 and once used as a warehouse for non-perishable goods. Its aim is to preserve the memory of the port city through images, films and testimonies on the twentieth century, social change and the development of the port.

The exhibition includes a model of Porto Torres in the early twentieth century and one of the industrial port from the second half of the century. The windows of the building are shaped like the hull of a ship.

One part of the museum is dedicated to the memorial to the battleship Roma and the ships Vivaldi and Da Noli, which commemorates the about 1,700 sailors who died on 9 September 1943 when the three vessels sank in the Gulf of Asinara. The museum has an educational classroom and offers guided tours.

Highlights

• Memorial to the battleship Roma, the Vivaldi and the Da Noli
• Models of Porto Torres and the industrial port
• Images, films and testimonies on the history of the port
• Nineteenth-century building of the former railway yard
• Windows shaped like the hull of a ship

Permanent exhibitions

• Storia del porto di Porto Torres – Images, films, testimonies and models of the port city in the twentieth century.
• Memoriale della corazzata Roma, del Vivaldi e del Da Noli – Commemoration of about 1,700 sailors lost when the ships sank in the Gulf of Asinara on 9 September 1943.

Operated by

Comune di Porto Torres

Visitors per year

approx. 1,864

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission is free.

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