Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

History museums; Archaeology museums; Science and technology museums

One of its kind in Italy the Museum of River Navigation in Battaglia Terme celebrates the intense and fervent mercantile activity along the waterways of Battaglia, a small village in the province of Padua which thrived thanks to these activity for more than 7 centuries. The museum keeps more than four thousand objects, including river boats, scale models, historical photos and maps, various items. It is the main evidence of the century old industrial vocation of Battaglia Terme. The museum is situated in the Ortazzo Riviera, and represents a unicum in its genre, as it collects and displays stories, materials and memories of the "lost world of river and lagoon transport in all its facets, a world which belongs to our recent past history and should not be forgotten.